Port 25 closing?
Mark Haney
markh at uptimecomputer.net
Wed Mar 9 18:11:36 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:53 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:18 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
>
> I'm suspecting that you aren't aware that INCOMING and OUTGOING rules
> are part and parcel of iptables/netfilter as well (omitting for a second
> FORWARDING). No 'firewall' would really be a firewall if it didn't cover
> both types. The 'system-config-security' tool rather glosses over these
> issues - the distinction of inbound/outbound/forward rules - it's
> somewhat of a ignorant tool.
Yes I am well aware of this. My point was to establish that setting
rules allowing incoming and outgoing traffic with SP2's firewall doesn't
always work. In a lot of cases I disabling the firewall is the only way
to make that behaviour stop.
>
> Thus it is not a matter of Windows Firewall from XP SP2 being a bit much
> for the Windows end user - but rather a matter of being a proper tool.
>
> Starting with NT4, Windows has had packet filtering at the network
> adapter level and that was clumsy to use and probably inefficient.
>
> But discussing Windows on this message base is entirely off topic - I
> just thought it necessary to straighten out this mis-information since
> people are so eager to blame Microsoft for their own lack of knowledge
> of the processes involved.
Personally, I'm not blaming MS for anything. It was high time Windows
OS's came with a firewall. The tool itself is pretty useful and fairly
intuitive, however, it's not consistent. Which is SOP in most MS
products I've ever dealt with.
>
> Craig
>
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Mark Haney
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