NETFILTER WAS SLEEPING THIS MORNING!!

[Tony Earnshaw]

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tor, 2002-03-07 kl. 13:29 skrev Bruno Negr=E3o:

> I'm running redhat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.9-17.
>  My netfilter is masquerading outgoing traffic from my internal lan.

> This morning, from my win98 station I tried to access some sites in the i=
nternet but I couldn't resolve the names. So I logged in the firewall and I=
 saw it dropped the answers of my DNS server!! After some tries it started =
to function normally. Was netfilter "sleeping" and suddenly it "woke up"?
>  It's too strange how could he(the firewall) drop the answers for himself=
 - his input rules are set to "-m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCE=
PT".

You don't say what your Internet connection is: PPP, NIC, DSL etc.

But. If you have an ethernet connection of one sort or another, it's
probably time to buy a new (external) NIC.

On the other hand, you could have an ISDN TA, card, modem, anything.
Suspect it.

Greet,

Tony

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