Firewall

[Eric Schuele]

On 09/21/2006 16:13, Robert C Wittig wrote:
> Hèrvé Simplice van der Eijk wrote:
>> on 1 machine I set up a freebsd 5.4  server  with dhcp, dns, ldap 
>> running on it.
>>
>> on an other machine I set up apachy webserver and both are working fine.
>>
>> when I'm making an http request on a windows client (internet explore) 
>> it shows my web site.
>>
>> but since I install ipfw firewall on my freebsd 5.4 (dhcp, dns ldap 
>> server) my windows client
>> cant reach my webserver anymore.
>>
>> Please can somebody tell me wich port I have to open up in my firewall.
>>
> 
> Assuming that you did not change Apache's default, port 80
> 
> 

Not sure I follow you....

Apache is on a machine *other* than the firewalled machine?  Is your 
Windows machine attempting to reach the machine by name?  Thus requiring 
Windows to use the DNS server on the firewalled machine?  If so... port 
53 is the one of interest.

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Regards,
Eric