On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 19:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I do some of my email and all of my Gmane activity (including > this list) at the address above, from my local access provider, > Comcast; but I do most of my email (and my wife does all of hers) at > my own domain, to which we connect by ssh. I pay an email service to host my domain, but as Joe does, I could just as easily use the mail hosts at my domain service. Easier, in fact, since that is their default. > Recently we've been moving machines about physically, from > floor to floor and connection to connection. We've also been getting > lots of timeouts. When I asked my domain host about it, he told me it > was my own firewall cutting us off. It blocks connections out from > our IP address if they fail more than it likes. This doesn't make sense to me, unless you have restrictive firewalls on your local net in front of the web access. Moving a machine should be irrelevant. Fedora's default setting for the firewall is to let nothing initiate connections to the system except ssh, and to let anything on the system that wants to reach the net do so. If you haven't changed it on any of your machines, that is what should be happening. Are you maybe using wireless, and getting problematic connections with lower (or no) speeds in different locations? > So, I THINK, I ought to enlarge a/o lubricate the opening in > the firewall that lets US out, but not make it any easier than I can > help for supposed malware to get out. Does that make sense? > > If so, where do I go (i.e., what file do I open), and what > changes do I make, to accomplish that? I don't think this should be necessary if you are using default Fedora settings. Use the program firewall-config (man firewall-config) to look at what the firewall settings are on each system. Mine is set to public (meaning roughly that I am exposed to the public web, and thus don't trust the network I'm on, so play safe). I used to have all kinds of elaborate rules in my iptables configuration (which is what the firewall uses under the covers), but eventually just caved and let the firewalld configuration set it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
