* Jimmy <squid@xxxxxxxxxx> 13. Jun 05: > Hello Frank, Hi, *grmpf* Please do NOT: + send me private mails, + top post, + wrap outputs. And do: + post your network topology. (I can do some brave guesses at this point: you have a single host with eth0 the external interface?) > Chain INPUT (policy DROP 6037 packets, 716K bytes) > pkts bytes target prot opt in out source > destination > 192K 46M ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > 531 40356 ACCEPT icmp -- eth0 * 10.2.96.0/24 212.100.249.100 > 18624 1366K ACCEPT tcp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 212.100.249.100 tcp spts:1024:65535 dpt:768 > 12340 619K ACCEPT tcp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 212.100.249.100 tcp spts:1024:65535 flags:0x16/0x02 multiport dports 25,53,80,110,143 You're accepting incomming TCP connections to port 25 at eth0. > 417 21204 ACCEPT tcp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 212.100.249.101 multiport dports 21,53,80,443 tcp flags:0x16/0x02 > 4 289 ACCEPT udp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:53 > 32956 5392K ACCEPT udp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53 > 129K 19M ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED > 6037 716K LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0 level 4 > 6037 716K LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `Dropped: ' > > Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP 49 packets, 3499 bytes) > pkts bytes target prot opt in out source > destination > 192K 46M ACCEPT all -- * lo 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > 531 40356 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 10.2.96.0/24 > 888 154K ACCEPT tcp -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 multiport dports 21,22,25,53,43,80,110,143,443,6667,6668 And you accept any outgoing TCP connection to eth0 at port 25. > 3 436 ACCEPT udp -- * eth0 212.100.249.100 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53 > 1 161 ACCEPT udp -- * eth0 212.100.249.101 0.0.0.0/0 udp spt:53 > 33490 2732K ACCEPT udp -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 multiport dports 53 > 187K 117M ACCEPT tcp -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED And you accept all RELATED traffic throug eth0. > 49 3499 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0 level 4 > 49 3499 LOG all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG flags 0 level 4 prefix `Dropped Out Rule: ' > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. >From this point of view you shoudn't have these log messages. These packets would be ACCEPTed due to the RELATED match. Your logged FIN packet could not be set in relation to an existing connections and so missed the RELATED rule somehow. Once I had similar problems with a squid: it seemed it always closed connections two times. I never had a detailed view at this phenomenon, but it looked similar to this. HTH, Gruss vom Frank. -- Sigmentation fault