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Re: lug.mtu.edu outage



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


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Jon
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