No outgoing network

cogitate · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject: No outgoing network

I have an interesting problem that I have not been able to figure out for a couple of weeks. I set up a Gentoo webserver and FTP server for a local intranet in an office. The install was done at my house, then I brought the box to the office. The office uses static IPs.

The problem is that, although any incomming connection succeeds, all outgoing connections fail. The server is serving web pages successfully, the anonymous FTP access works like a charm, ssh from any windows box works great. emerge sync fails, as does any ping attempts to any box. Hostnames do resolve, but no connection ever gets established with any other box (windows or linux). I'm thinking it might be a firewall that is blocking the box, but all the other servers in this office have internet connections (they are all windows boxes).

output of ifconfig -a:

ynef · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Lund, Sweden

Post any and all iptables rules you've got running. You could reproduce this error by letting only established and related traffic get out from the box, but otherwise have a default policy of DROP on the output chain. You know, in theory.

Output of "iptables -L -v" please.

cogitate · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

I haven't got any iptables rules set up. There is a hardware firewall later on up the network stream, but I don't have access to that firewall. I was thinking about a firewall on the box, but I just wanted it to get setup before I put one in place.

I don't have access to the box right now, but I will try to run the iptables list anyway (just incase) and try an emerge sync again tomorrow.

cogitate · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 1:17 pm Post subject:

cogitate · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

Just so people know, this whole issue has been solved by setting a proxy which I had forgotten. I put the proxy settings in /etc/profile and it works.