Can't access to gmail (maybe a port problem with ipfw)

Robert Slade bsd at bathnetworks.com
Sun Jul 17 11:27:01 GMT 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:47, Emil Khatib wrote:
> Hi everybody. I'm trying to access gmail from my FreeBSD box (5.4).
> I'm usinf IPFW. The question is I can acces if I set ipfw to accept
> all from any to any, so I know there's a port that should be opened to
> access the main page of gmail. When the firewall is up (allowing only
> traffic through ports 21, 80 and above 1024) I can't even acces gmail
> main page (mozilla simply ignores the address I give it)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
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Emil,

I don't know gmail, but if it is using https that is port 443 so you may
need to open up that too.

Rob



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