Chris Norman wrote:
From: "Anthony Messina" <amessina@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: IPTables
Chris Norman wrote:
Hi people,
I am running a server in college at the minute. I just re installed
it because (amoungst other things), IPTables wasn't doing anything.
Now I have exactly the same iptables problem.
If I do:
service iptables start
I just get returned to the prompt, the same with /etc/init.d/iptables
start.
Why am I getting no output, how can I get iptables to start please?
Cheers,
Chris Norman
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have you defined iptables rules? what are they? what do your
logfiles say?
Which log files? I defined a rule like this:
iptables -F
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ! 20:25 -j DROP
Then I did service iptables start, and it looked good, everything came
up as [OK], but then when I did service iptables status, it said
"Firewall is stopped".
I'd need to read the script to see what that message means. I suggest
you do that.
"service iptables start" clears all your existing rules and then causes
a predefined set of rules to be implemented.
If you haven't created firewall rules, you won't get a firewall
implemented. No matter how many times you reinstall.
