localhost being blocked

hoodcanaljim@usa.com
Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:28:32 -0000

Hi
Sorry about the last post being in html.  But apparently I cannot add
an attachment to this one.  So see the last post for the  status.txt.gz

  I have shorewall/iptables running on my server (pub) but access to
localhost is blocked then I attempt to use ping localhost, telnet
localhost 25, echo Hello | sendmail -v root@localhost.   All these
commands were run after using shorewall reset and creating the attached
file.  All these commands work with shorewall clear.

  My problem is I can''t email the root messages from (pub) to (nor)
where they are forwarded on to my mail accounts at my isp.  Any attempt
to send mail is met with "Connection timed out with [127.0.0.1]".
Something has change possibly as my fault during changing the smart
host to (nor) from another computer.


Thank you