[olug] Installfest thanks and a question

[Nate Rotschafer]

Actually frontpage does require an FTP connection to my knowledge to upload 
it!?  Though I'm not 100% sure....unless it tries to connect on another high 
port.  Did you try adding an IPCHAINS rule to allow FTP through to see if 
that helped?  Somewhere we just need to find a correct config options....did 
you use IPCHAINS or IPTABLES on your old firewall?

Thanks,
Nate Rotschafer


>From: David Walker <linux_user at grax.com>
>Reply-To: olug at bstc.net
>To: olug at bstc.net
>Subject: Re: [olug] Installfest thanks and a question
>Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:32:24 -0600
>
>As far as I know frontpage just uses http connections.  I can't think of a
>reason it should have a problem except through a proxy connection or
>something like that.
>
>I'm using portsentry and I intend to use it on more machines.  It is indeed
>rather easy (or I got lucky and everything just worked the first time.)
>
>You might consider using EtherReal to monitor the tcpip traffic and see
>exactly where things break down.
>
>On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:30 am, you wrote:
> > :) Since I'm ignorant as to how frontpage whatever works, you've got me
> >
> > stumped.  If it is indeed a firewall problem, the only thing that comes 
>to
> > mind is possibly trying out portsentry.  It listens on ports to see if
> > anyone is trying to connect/scan you, and it can then log that and block
> > them.  I personally haven't used it (yet), but from just dnld'n and
> > installn, it doesnt look to complicated. <shrug> (I've been deceived
> > before though too...) :)
> >
> > Anyone else have frontpage knowledge?  Does it somehow try to reconnect 
>to
> > the host by some means?
> >
> > good luck
> > Brian
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:37:33 +0000
> >
> > Joe Mastandrea <joem at sarpy.com> wrote:
> > > Brian,
> > >
> > > Thanks again.  We do suspect the server, since we tried to ftp in from
> > > elsewhere and that didn't work either.
> > >
> > > However, from the alternate location she could use Frontpage to get 
>into
> > >
> > > her servers (three of them), but she can't use Frontpage to get to 
>them
> > > through the firewall.  What's intersting is that she could get 
>Frontpage
> > >
> > > through the old RH6.0 firewall to all three sites, but she gets an
> > > "Unexpected Error" dialog box through the RH7.1 firewall (aren't M$
> > > dialog boxes halpful?  I didn't think so, either).   We suspected the
> > > firewall because the Frontpage and ftp problems showed up at the same
> > > time as the firewall upgrade (little did we know the ftp server would
> > > have problems).
> > >
> > > We're still investigating getting the Frontpage part.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > Brian Wiese wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:36:15 +0000
> > > >
> > > >Joe Mastandrea <joem at sarpy.com> wrote:
> > > >>Brian,
> > > >>
> > > >>Thanks for your prompt reply.  Yes, "passive mode" is enabled.
> > > >>
> > > >>Joe Mastandrea
> > > >
> > > >and it's still not working? perhaps the server is not allowing 
>passive
> > > >mode? check the server? otherwise, I'm outta ideas, thats solved my
> > > >similiar problems... I'm outta ideas. :)
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Nate Rotschafer
Millard West High School
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