RE: Strange misunderstandings

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni@billy.demon.nl>]

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fre, 2002-05-31 kl. 23:16 skrev John Jones:

> [gemini:~] iptables -C
> iptables v1.2.6a: Unknown arg `-C'
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.

I don't know whether you noticed, but you finally got your answer from
Sascha. The funny thing is, is that all the answers were time-shuffeled,
like a pack of cards. Sascha is using a dial-in WinXP mail client to a
webmail Sendmail server, and is based in Germany. John's (your) mail
server is Sendmail and is based in North America. Adam's is a Postfix
server in the U.K.

The shuffeling has no doubt to do with a preference for European Union
vis a vis British origins by Samba.org, and quite right too. Maybe the
position of the sun at the time had something to do with it, as well. Or
Gemini in ascendence.

Had you done "man iptables", you'd never have had to ask the question,
but Sascha's analysis was witty and droll, so worth waiting for,
perhaps.

No-one gave you the answer to your second question. The latter is, that
you've established a path to the internal name server with PREROUTING
and DNAT, but none back again. So no packets get returned. Do that with
POSTROUTING and SNAT. Also, you haven't specified any interfaces, but
try that later if things don't work.

Tony


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