[Nelug] Re: [general] iptables doing unwanted logging

Chris Burton nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Aug 12 23:10:04 UTC 2003


> Now I think they should have been caught by this rule (the variables for
> the name and the IP address do have the right values):
>
> $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_IF_1 -p TCP -s $ANYWHERE -d $EXTERNAL_IP_1
> --dport 20:24 -j ACCEPT
>
> and hence not logged. What have I missed?
>

You have these lines ..
#echo -e "Denying UDP, except DNS."
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_IF_1 -j LOG

Which might be catching it, I havnt looked too close but thats a first
guess.

ChrisB.





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