Re: iptables on FC11

2009-10-14 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 22:21 +0200, paul van der meij wrote: > I was misled by an internet suggestion that nmap was a good tool to > check iptables configuration, but that is not true. Depends on how you're using it... It's commonly used on one computer to probe another computer. If you try to ru

Re: iptables on FC11

2009-10-13 Thread paul van der meij
Thanks for the suggestion, that is exactly what happened. I was misled by an internet suggestion that nmap was a good tool to check iptables configuration, but that is not true. iptables -L gives the correct information Paul 2009/10/13 Christopher K. Johnson > paul van der meij wrote: > >> I up

Re: iptables on FC11

2009-10-13 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
paul van der meij wrote: I upgraded from FC9 to FC11 (new install) but iptables is behaving strange. My /etc/sysconfig/iptables file shows a number of ports as accept, but nmap tells a different story. e.g. imap port 143 is closed in nmap (and in truce), open in iptables file. I did use the ip

iptables on FC11

2009-10-13 Thread paul van der meij
I upgraded from FC9 to FC11 (new install) but iptables is behaving strange. My /etc/sysconfig/iptables file shows a number of ports as accept, but nmap tells a different story. e.g. imap port 143 is closed in nmap (and in truce), open in iptables file. I did use the iptables GUI to configure. Any