On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, gb wrote: > I am running RH8 firewalls with iptables 1.2.6a. The firewalls work just > fine, but on reboot the nat part doesn't start up. It will not let > internal traffic out or external traffic in until I do a restart. Is it possible that some source or destination addresses are alphabetic, and not in /etc/hosts? Or that network names are resolved through NIS (YP) and are not in /etc/networks? (I didn't notice in the man page that iptables actually honors networks, but if it did...) These services start after the iptables rules are installed. Fixes: make sure names are in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured to fall back to files if DNS or YP is unavailable. Of course, Real Sysadmins hard-code all IP addresses and networks numerically. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)
