-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ran into this one a few weeks ago KDE & some of it's component subsystems seem to use connections via the localhost interface I used the following to allow all and any traffic on lo:
/sbin/iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT Jan. On Thursday 26 Jun 2003 11:34 am, Matteo Vescovi wrote: : Hi all, : I'm a newbie on firewalling and I'm trying to understand how to make my : Woody box work with iptables activated and even let me start KDE. : At the present, as you can see in the attached file, I'm filtering exim and : cups in input chain (plus other ping stuff), but I'm not sure it's a good : idea. It's safe, but I've got to disable it at all to connect to the inet. : I'm not understanding if it hangs because of some strange services KDE : needs to start at the beginning and I'm not able to discover those ports : and behaviour. : I'm really needing help and suggestions about this little problem. : TIA. : : Matteo - -- ________________________________ Keep your friends close, and your enemies in a small jar on your desk. ________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/BoeX4LWCZ7JjaMRAu2HAKD1tv4eVlHiKaRQksMxkVmAvYFXrACggd6M 4DoM0u+stxgug4Zm/sMNvqc= =KeiM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
