Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:42:52 -0500 From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> To: Chris Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 7.2 - ports blocked but no firewall Message-ID: <20091006214115.M53910@brightstar.bomgardner.net> In-Reply-To: <20091006180519.GA63605@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20091006174735.M14938@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <20091006180519.GA63605@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Chris Cowart wrote
> Gene wrote:
> > I'm running 7.2 GENERIC and installed the unrealirc port. I've started it up
> > and can connect from localhost just fine. But when attempting to connect from
> > the outside world (eg. from another box on the lan) I get connection refused.
> >
> > I've tried both with and without ipfilter running (with appropriate rule).
> > Other ports are reachable including a non-standard port used for ssh.
> >
> > The question: Could there be any reason that port 6667 might be blocked?
> > (Unrealircd questions can be taken up elsewhere).
>
> It's possible you've configured Unrealircd to only listen on
> localhost and not on "*".
>
> Look for something like:
>
> | listen *:6697
> | {
> | ...
> | };
>
> And make sure it's "*" and not "127.0.0.1".
>
Checked and it's correct.
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