[Techtalk] More fiddling-generated problems

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:31, Patricia Fraser wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks again (in advance) for being a great group of folk!
> 
> Since my recent reinstall (Mandrake 8, KDE2), after using Bastille to 
> generate the firewall (iptables) rules, *something* I've done has messed up 
> my (used-to-be) nice CUPS printing system, and I'm hoping someone can help. 
[...]
> Oh, and trying to browse to localhost:631 to admin cups gives the same 
> problem - I usually end up at the Netscape home page or similar...
> 
> kppp comments out the search localdomain
> 
> lsof -i output looks like this:
> 
> lpc     5032 trish    3u  IPv4  82770       TCP 
> d251-ps0-mel.alphalink.com.au:ctt-broker->localhost.localdomain:ipp (SYN_SENT)

Im almost certain that your iptables setup blocks connections to port
631 here. You could let through anything that originates from localhost:

iptables -I INPUT 1 -i lo -j ACCEPT

and see if the problem persists. If not, you might want to make this
rule permanent (and I don't know how to do this with Bastille/Mandrake).

Nils
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