From: Andrew Linnell (andrew@signmaster.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 19:07:59 PST
yeah they can all work through the firewall... they can connect to outside
machines just fine... its just the mail server that is the problem...
----- Original Message -----
From: MaD MaN <joelf@ptd.net>
To: <pmfirewall@pointman.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [pmfirewall] timeouts?
> Wow that seems pretty weird to me. I think you should throw windows in
> the garbage?!? Lol. Well in all seriousness I can not tell you what do
> do there. I have never encountered a problem like that at all. The
> only thing I could see to be the prb is that the output rules might not
> be set up right. Are you using a machine that can work throuh the
> firewall??
>
> joel
>
> Doug Holtz wrote:
>
> > MaD MaN I am getting news and mail as we write ;) Web access also
> > thru MY machine, a windows 98 SE going thru the redhat box. My wife's
> > machine is not connecting. It can ping my ISP thru the redhat box, so
> > I know something is working, but it won't receive web, mail, or news.
> > I did a search on her machine; at one time it was THE ICS sharing
> > machine when we had a modem. I originally ran it as a dhcp server. I
> > see a lot of the old stuff still running in the background when I
> > check the system config out. There is even reference to a dhcp nic
> > address which I can't get rid of. I've taken modem sharing out and
> > changed the dhcp to static ip on the now unused nic in her machine. I
> > deleted the ip addresses from the registry it used as dhcp locators
> > (different ISP). I've now renamed all the ICS and DHCPCSVR files. Try
> > again. No luck. Ping ISP is OK; connect - NYET. Any ideas? TNX
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: MaD MaN
> > To: pmfirewall@pointman.org
> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 4:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [pmfirewall] timeouts?
> > Are you allowing them access to your mail server through
> > the firewall using portfw?? Also do you haev the necessary
> > ports open for them to get to the mail server??
> >
> > joel
> >
> > Andrew Linnell wrote:
> >
> > > After i installed pmfirewall on my mail server my users
> > > started to get timeouts when they tried to ch eck their
> > > email. When i shutdown pmfirewall they get their email
> > > fine. What could be causing this?
> >
> > --
> > Check it out one time!!
> >
> > http://www.VisualStimulation.com
> >
> >
> --
> Check it out one time!!
>
> http://www.VisualStimulation.com
>
>
>
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