Questions tagged [firewall]
Software that controls what connections can be made to and from a network.
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CSF/LFD - would I really need CPHulk enabled also?
So if I have the default configuration of CSF/LFD firewall running, should I enable CPHulk, or does CSF/LFD already do what CPHulk does?
If the answer is "No, CSF/LFD does not do what CPHulk does", ...
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Opening firewall to incoming port 443
I recently set up the ufw firewall on a Linux machine so that outgoing connections are allowed, incoming connections are denied, and denied connections are logged. This seems to work fine for most ...
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iptables: Allow only HTTP access for web browsing
Have a linux box, want it locked down but just be able to surf internet on it. Why is this script blocking http too?
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Running a webserver behind a firewall I have no access to
I'm having a bad time in my student appartment: I want to run a webserver on my Laptop, which should be reachable from outside of the net.
I'm sitting behind some proxy-server that passes outgoing ...
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Can telnet port 25 while at home, but not while in internal network
I can telnet port 25 on mail.foo.com while I am at home.
But I can't telnet to port 25 on mail.foo.com while I am on the internal network where the mail server is located.
This also applies for other ...
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Lync client 2010 and VPN firewall rule
I am running Lync client 2010 (4.0.7577.4598) on Windows 7 x64. The server for this is a corporate one, and in parallel I use a Juniper VPN to access the corporate intranet and other resources.
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Opening a specific port on Mac
I need to open a specific port on my mac client (because when I try to connect from server it says "target machine actively refused it ").My problem though is I cannot find a way to add a specific ...
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What does an empty iptables mean?
I’m using CentOS and when type in the following iptables command:
iptables -L -v
The output is as follows:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 19614 packets, 2312K bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in ...
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Soluto installation fails with "Check your internet connection or firewall settings" [closed]
A few days ago, I wanted to install Soluto. The installation failed with this error message:
Check your internet connection or firewall settings!
Because everything was fine with my connection, I ...
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Windows 7 is blocking ports
I am trying to open port 80 and 3690 for HTTP and svnserve respectively (inbound for both). I have Windows Firewall off, and have tried temporarily disabling Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise, to no avail. ...
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Creating a DMZ with two routers
Hopefully it's okay to post semi-"I am learning" questions on this forum! Basically, I have two routers (both Netgear D834G's) and would like to setup a DMZ at home (merely for learning purposes and ...
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How to set address lange limit on inbound firewall rule on Netgear DG834GU
In the firewall settings on a Netgear DG834GU modem/router I am trying to create an inbound rule that allows SMTP traffic (port 25) only from an address range (only allow mail from Postini anti-spam ...
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What security changes are necessary when connecting DSL modem directly to PC instead of router?
Windows XP
I have a user with a single PC that was connected to the internet via a standard home router. The router is now having hardware-related issues and to save money, they're considering ...
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FlashFXP asking to connect to unknown remote address
I installed Agnitum Outpost firewall which tells me about every connection happening on every port. When I try to connect to my FTP server on port 21 (hosted on mediatemple.com), I get an outgoing ...
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Deny all incoming connections with iptables?
I want to make some simple iptables rules to deny all incoming connections and allow outgoing. How can I do that?
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Which port must I unblock in firewall for FTPS using WinScp to evade Timeout?
I'm suing FTPS in WinScp for sending data to my Synology diskstation. When I'm doing it inside a private network using port 21 for connection everything works fine. But when I'm trying the same thing ...
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Cannot access my website from outside my localhost
I have test website on my system (MacBook Pro with Mac OSX Lion). The website is served by nginx listening on port 8000. The listen configuration is listen 8000 default, so it should be open to accept ...
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Using my previous desktop computer as custom ubuntu router, will throughput be high?
I'm going to be redoing my home network soon and am thinking of using a dedicated ubuntu machine to use as the router/firewall as well as being a web server, nas (media file server), dns, wifi, and ...
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Can I see list of all IP blocked by my firewall and router?
I am using inbuilt firewall of windows 7. ( I am also using Microsoft security essentials ). My router is Netgear WNR1000v2 . Now can I see list of all IP which are blocked by either my firewall or ...
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can in-browser flash be stopped from interacting with the network, either via configuration or through firewall (on Windows)?
suppose I want to allow loading of SWF files (like ads, simple games etc) but I don't want to allow them transmit info back to the server. How do I go about doing this on Windows? Is there such ...
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Can't block a specific application in Windows 7 Firewall
I am using Windows 7 64 bit and trying to block a specific application from accessing the internet using "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" (wf.msc).
The rule is set to be applied for all ...
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Is there a way to sync/mirror website file and database between two remote servers?
Here's my situation, I have website "A" sitting behind a intranet firewall, inaccessible to the people outside the intranet. I intend to have a outsourced developer work on "A", but he's not able to ...
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Make a VPN connection only for RDP
I am connecting to a cisco VPN router via PPTP on my windows 7 Ultimate machine. Like most VPN's, it connects just fine but also redirects all of my traffic through the VPN. I really only need RDP ...
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How to quickly Enable/Disable Internet Traffic so that it ONLY goes to ONE program?
What Firewall program (preferably free) can I use to quickly enable/disable internet traffic so that it only goes to one program?
For example, sometimes I need only one program (Program X) to be ...
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OSX Lion, open a local port so people on my network can access it
I'm running django's simple HTTP server (using python manage.py runserver). It's currently running on port 8000.
How can I open a port on my macbook and allow network traffic to visit my host on ...
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Robust way to acces my computers behind NAT and firewalls?
I am searching for a robust way to access my computers (on any port when possible) whether they are behind several NAT gateways or not. By robust I mean I want to access the computers whenever they ...
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How to enable response to broadcast ping on Windows?
I have many Windows servers in the lab. I wanted to use ping broadcasting to discover the machines. I try to avoid a central server to maintain the list of machines as this seems like a single point ...
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Why is my firewall preventing me from accessing some websites
I have an old Belkin router and when I enable the firewall I cannot access certain websites. For example:
http://www.avisynth.org
With Firewall Enabled: Main page loads and begins to do a meta ...
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How to open a port for all users: NSA 2400
I'm trying to open up port 8332 for all users behind my firewall but can only find instructions for doing so for a single IP address. How do I make sure all my users can use a specific port?
I've ...
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Forbid connection to IP address in hosts file doesn't work?
The hosts file is used to map hostnames to IP addresses. However, I only have an IP address. I tried using HostsMan, but it doesn't want to even add the line.
How do I add a line to the hosts file ...
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Running Smoothwall in Virtualbox
Okay so here's my deal,I need to run Smoothwall in a VM using Virtualbox running on a host PC with two physical NICs. I have some roommates and we are all sharing one internet connection which ...
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does http://localhost/myapp from a desktop PC on a Windows network go through network firewall?
I am trying to find out if the (hardware) firewall on our network would be scanning packets when I type this in a browser window:
http://localhost:51502/myapp.
Would "localhost" packets be ...
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how do I block downloading data from a web domain, including by javascript code?
I am unhappy with google's javascript loading various BS from *.gstatic.com domain. I tried telling my firewall to block *.gstatic.com but apparently this only blocked loading webpages into the ...
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Router port forwarding stopped working
First of all, I've read all the relevant questions here I could find... I use RealVNC to connect to my computer at home - everything worked without any problems, but today I couldn't connect from work....
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Port forwarding does not work always?
I opened port 25374, this is eMule TCP port, then I use canyouseeme.org to check if it is really opened.
I got the weird problem :
when eMule was running, canyouseeme.org saw my port. I got the ...
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How can I disable any TCP/IP port on a Windows 7 machine?
I need help on finding out how to disable any particular TCP/IP port on a Windows box whenever a need arises.
I googled before posting the question and I got links to articles mentioning only
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Allow access from outside network with dmz and iptables
I'm having a problem with my home network.
So my setup is like this:
In my Router (using Ubuntu desktop v11.04),
I installed squid proxy as my transparent proxy.
So I would like to use dyndns to ...
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What do I need to open on my Windows Firewall to allow GFI Security Endpoint functionality
I've been asked to switch off my firewall so that GFI Security Endpoint will work properly, I'm not switching off my firewall!
What do I need to do on my windows firewall to allow GFI Security ...
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UPnP device accessible via public IP when on internal network only why?
Setup my Foscam IP camera last night on the wireless network using UPnP and was able to access it fine via the public IP using another PC on the same network with no issues.
However when I tried to ...
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What port(s) etc. need to be open on a firewall to allow successful operation with BitBucket
Over the weekend, our IT department installed an updated firewall. As a result, we are no longer able to pull from (and push to) the repository on BitBucket.
Attempting to perform a Mercurial ...
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Stopped windows firewall service during ICS, how is this possible?
Although windows firewall is required to be on when you "start" Internet Connection Sharing, you can stop the WF service with MMC. When done a client can still use the host machines internet. The ...
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Does ICS modify windows firewall policies in the registry?
I had a host machine I wanted to enable ICS on. First I realized that doing so was not possible until I enabled the Windows Firewall. Once I enabled the firewall and set up ICS, I noticed due to ...
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Accessing my Rails webrick behind proxy?
In my mackbook, when I try to connect to my rails application in office I can't , in the office there are some http proxy , and when I run my rails like this :
sudo rails s -p8080
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Linux, how to force all traffic to specific host over VPN?
I'm trying to ensure that all traffic to our stats server is forced over the VPN, in the case that the VPN falls down, it shouldn't be that the traffic tries to route over the WAN. To short-circuit ...
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Trying to configure a hardware firewall with a wireless router
I have a network with 5 PCs, 2 network printers, and one wireless handheld scanner. I was just running software firewalls but wanted to add a hardware firewall to up the security. I have no problems ...
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User receiving an "Error Code: 403 Forbidden" but no one else is. What can I suggest that they do to fix it?
I have a ClickOnce application that is published to an IIS web server and the install page and installation process has been working perfectly for years.
One of my new users has recently tried to go ...
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iptables trouble: nat with ip alias (virtual interface) not working
I'm setting up an Ubuntu 11.10 server to act as firewall for a network running several different SSL websites. The idea is fairly common: have all public IP's for each site aliased to the public ...
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Cannot access local server via home router — but works from outside [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
DD-WRT: How to allow port forwarding to apply to requests originating from inside the LAN?
I have a webserver running on my private PC at home. This PC is running Windows 7.
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Home Internet lockdown?
I've noticed that at schools and such, their networks are somehow able to block certain sites from anyone who connects to it.
I would like to set up a similar system at home for my family and all ...
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Networking Setup and Configuration
I have a Router, Modem, Switch, and a Switch.
Firewall: FVS338
Switch: FS762T
What I would like to do is the following:
Modem <----> Firewall <---> |
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