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I''ve corrected my HTDIG configuration so that it doesn''t fall into the symlink loop created by the 1.3 beta documentation. Sorry for any inconvenience, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

The search capability at http://www.shorewall.net has been improved. - The quick search on the main page no longer includes the mailing list archives. - The extended search page (http://www.shorewall.net/htdig/search.html) allows you to search: a) the entire site (including the archives); b) the site excluding the archivesj; or, c) just the archives. - The mailing list information page

I''m working on it. Word of advice -- if you are ever tempted to install ''htdig'', don''t! -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://www.shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net

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This is becoming a FAQ and should probably be added to the docs. Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:09:01 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net> To: Carl Spelkens

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] strange UDP scan results on a Shorewall=20 firewall Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 08:33:20 -0800 From: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net> To: "Scott Duncan" <sduncan@cytechconsult.com> On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:30 am, Scott Duncan wrote: > Yes, the net->all policy is the same on all three (REJECT log

Prodded by a comment from Florin Angelescu that he couldn''t find ''blacklist'' information searching the Shorewall archives, I began to investigate and discovered a problem from the server migration. Only the posts from December 2003 were being searched by any of the Internet Search Engines or by Htdig (the search engine I use on the Shorewall Site). I have (finally)

"shorewall refresh" is not handling FORWARDPING=Yes properly in 1.3.7a. After a refresh, the configuration is the same as it would be with FORWARDPING=No. There''s a corrected firewall script available from http://www.shorewall.net/errata.htm. Sorry for the inconvenience... -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ:

Shorewall.net will be unavailable for approximately two hours this evening beginning at 23:00 GMT (16:00 PDT) for installation of RH7.3. The http and ftp mirrors will still be available and mail will be queued in the backup MX. The mailing list archives and site/archive search will not be available. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables

I''ve completed the maintenance and everything seems to be back up now. Sorry for any inconvenience, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

1.2.8 is now available for download from my site and from Sourceforge. If you have installed 1.2.7 then before trying to restart under 1.2.8: a) Look at your /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file and note the directory= =20 in the STATEDIR variable. If that variable is empty, assume /var/state/shorewall b) Remove the file ''lock'' in the directory determined in step a. You

The HTDIG search index database for the Shorewall Website and Mailing List Archives has grown to over 300MB with the result that it takes a lot of CPU cycles to rebuild. I have therefore decided to change to a weekly rebuild schedule (I had been rebuilding the index daily). The index will be rebuilt on Sundays beginning at approximately 0230 GMT. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a

Shorewall 1.3.9 is available. In this release: 1. DNS Names are now allowed in Shorewall config files (I still recommend against using them however). 2. The connection SOURCE may now be qualified by both interface and IP address in a Shorewall rule. 3. Shorewall startup is now disabled after initial installation until the file /etc/shorewall/startup_disabled is removed. 4. The

Let me know if there are any problems. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

I have purchased a license for Vexira MailArmor (an antivirus product) and the good news is that it is installed and working at shorewall.net. The bad news is that I have yet to get Vexira running together with SpamAssassin :-( As things currently stand, list posts will be protected from viruses but may contain Spam. I''ll continue to work to correct this situation. -Tom -- Tom Eastep

The 1.2 firewall contains messy logic to support the old sample configurations in that any rule that contains "none" in any of its columns is ignored. I''m considering removing that messiness in 1.3 and seek the opinion of the list. Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net

I have implemented the ability to specify ''all'' in the SOURCE and DESTINATION columns of the rules file and I''m not sure I like the result. The code is in CVS if any of you are interested in giving it a try. If you do try it, please let me know what you think. If you specify ''all'' in those columns it must not be qualified (may not be followed by

The ''firewall'' and ''functions'' file in CVS together produce a 30%+ speedup of ''shorewall restart'' on my firewall when compared to 1.3.11a. Please test with these files -- I don''t anticipate making any more performance changes for 1.3.12 and I want to be sure that I didn''t break anything. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall

There is now a link from the Shorewall home page to the CVS repository. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net ICQ: #60745924 \ teastep@shorewall.net