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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: change in behavior of OUTPUT chain rule in 2.6.19
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:41:31 +0200
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Mike Accetta wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt writes:
> 
>>On Dec 14 2006 13:30, Mike Accetta wrote:
>>
>>>Between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 (and 2.6.19.1) we've observed that a reject rule 
>>
>>on
>>
>>>the OUTPUT chain no longer causes a connection attempt to abort immediately
>>>with "Connection refused".  As a specific example, this rule
>>>
>>>iptables -A  OUTPUT -p tcp --destination-port 23 \
>>>--destination 10.0.20.1  -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
>>
>>I cannot reproduce this with 2.6.20.2. Have you tried any newer kernel?
> 
> 
> This was filed as Bugzilla #7716 and fixed by Patrick McHardy in 2.6.20.


The patch was also sent to -stable, I think its in 2.6.19.3.