IPTables

[Chris Norman]

From: "Anthony Messina" <amessina at messinet.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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
>> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
>
> 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".

Cheers,
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