Re: lug.mtu.edu outage

[Tim Carmean <tecarmea@xxxxxxx>]

Jon wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:24:28AM -0400, Tim Carmean wrote:
>  
>
> > Hey guys I just wanted to say that I was typing while tired and thats 
> > why the lug server went down around 2am this morning.  I was working on 
> > adding firewall rules for jabber transports and screwed up an iptables 
> > line that effectively firewalled off all outgoing traffic (iptables -P 
> > OUTPUT DROP != iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1863 -j ACCEPT).  
> > Someone with physical access will have to go there in the morning and 
> > change the OUTPUT policy to accept (iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT), and 
> > check the rc.firewall script for the last line in the jabber section 
> > (what I was working on) for iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1863 -j 
> > ACCEPT.
> >
> > Sorry again guys, it was a stupid mistake.
> >    
>
> Funny I was just about to email peter with this:
>
> One of two things just happened:
> 1) you tried locking me out and firewalled off everyone
> 2) it died
>
>
>  
no for some reason i told lug server to cut off all outgoing 
connections.  i really have no idea what i was thinking.  i guess telcom 
will save some money in bandwidth costs tonight...

tim

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