You have some sort of DNS problem or your firewall is blocking the
requests. What happens when you telnet to some known IP using port 25?
telnet 206.124.146.177 25
I think Tom has a FAQ about this problem. I know it is on LEAF.sf.net .
Larry Platzek larryp@inow.com
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Yaron Zarfati wrote:
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:45:23 -0300
> From: Yaron Zarfati <yaron@ort.edu.ar>
> To: shorewall-users@shorewall.net
> Subject: [Shorewall-users] getting timeout on all connections
>
> hi, after installing the firewall I´m getting a timeout after 3 minutes and
> 9 seconds for all protocols.
> I have the firewall connected to the ISP, and a mail server in the DMZ.
> at first the mail server didn´t resolve addresses, so instaled a dns
> cache in the firewall, then nslookup worked fine, but the sendmail log
> told ´host name lookup failure´ for all messages.
> trying telnet some.host 110, telnet some.host 25,
> telnet www.other.host 80 gives timeout after 3 minutes 9 seconds,
> excactly !
> maybe this is not shorewall specific, but if someone has experienced
> something similar and solve it, a hint would be greatly appreciated.
> thanks in advance.
> --
> Yaron Zarfati
> Administrador de Red
> ORT Argentina
> www.ort.edu.ar
>
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