Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:53:30 +0100 From: Robert Downes <nullentropy@lineone.net> To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Blocked outbound traffic - what is it? Message-ID: <40D301EA.3080606@lineone.net>
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Having set up IPFW for NAT + stateful rules (as posted to this list recently, using skipto rules), my firewall setup seems to be doing a good job. GRC.COM reports all service ports as stealthed, and I seem to have no problem browsing web pages, checking mail, etc. But calling ` /var/log/security | grep out` gives a lot of reports of blocked outbound traffic to port 80 on legitimate websites. And occassionally to port 110 on legitimate mail servers. Seeing as I'm not having a problem with web browsing, and my mail *seems* to be collected without complaint from the client, why is so much outbound traffic being blocked? What are these packets doing to offend the IPFW ruleset? -- Bob
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