Re: What's closing off port 25?

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>]

Jonathan Q wrote:

> I wonder if the default accept policy rules out port 25?  

If the chain policies are ACCEPT and there are no rules in the chains, then
it will do just that - ACCEPT everything.

You can list your rules with 'ipchains -L'

should give you something similar to this (even though this is from iptables, but ipchains and iptables are very similar):

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


This means there are no rules and the policy is ACCEPT for all chains.

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Tobias
nya~ni ?