nblug box?

augie schwer at sonic.net
Sat Aug 17 18:15:57 PDT 2002


On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Dustin Mollo wrote:
# Ahh...I see the problem.  You ended up in the firewall rules of the box.
# For some reason that I'm not yet able to find, the box rebooted itself on
# the 16th at around 11PM or so.  One the things the box runs is portsentry.
# It's kinda funny - according to the logs, you (at least, I'm assuming it's
# you) requested a web page from the box *just after* portsentry had started,
# but before the web server had started (which, because it binds to port 80,
# causes portsentry to ignore requests to that port.)  I've fixed the
# configuration of portsentry so that it no longer monitors port 80 even if
# the web server goes down (for some odd reason.)

yeah, i think it was a little before midnight i was trying to navigate to
the nblug debian mirror.

the dynamic firewalling that portsentry does is the reason why i went to
snort instead.

# I've also deleted a few Sonic IP's out of the ipchains rules.  Give it a
# shot again, and let me know if it works for you again...

yep works now! :) thanks.

-augie


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