David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > Maybe I just haven't installed enough distros, but the times I've installed > CentOS, I've had to remember that by default, iptables is blocking inbound > port 80 requests. This leads me to believe that I have a non-OS firewall > error because I can ping but not http request. > > Is there a particular reason for this? Or is it a fail on my end?
Very few ports are open out of the box. I'm not sure, but I think if you choose the webserver (or is it server ??) option at install it might have port 80 open. Port 22 is open for ssh. I think 631 (cups) is as well, but not positive. You can configure the firewall with system-config-securitylevel-tui after install (it runs during firstboot as well) where you can easily tell it to turn on port 80 (and/or 443) for web services. pinging a box has nothing to do with ports are blocked, open, or closed. You can filter pings but I don't believe the firewall does by default. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
