15 Mar
2010
15 Mar
'10
11:30 p.m.
On 15 March 2010 13:56, john lewis <zen57162(a)zen.co.uk> wrote:
I did do 'iptables -L' to try to see if there
was anything in the
firewall rules blocking me and got
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
which means nothing to me ;-(
It means you don't have any firewall rules, which is ill-advised on a
Internet-facing server.
There are heaps of guides to creating a firewall policy, my favourite
method at the moment is to use "ufw". It's in Debian as of squeeze.
Make sure you can access your VPS console before you start experimenting :)
G