[NTLUG:Discuss] port 22 "filtered"

[Thomas Cameron]

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From: "terry" <kj5zr at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] port 22 "filtered"


> Now that's a possibility, a very strong possibility, but don't know what
> to do about it.  Fedora ships with lokkit, which I used, and that's
> prolly what I did to block or filter this port. During an earlier
> session, I used lokkit, turned it on, as I wasn't sure if she had
> adequate protection from the outside or not.  Afterward I tried to
> unblock it, to turn firewall off, everything that made sense, then I
> uninstalled the package that apparently originally contained lokkit,
> redhat-config-securitylevel-???, rebooted  the system and still same
> symptoms.  I cannot seem to free up that port.  Cannot ping this machine
> either.  So... ???

If you can't ping and you can't ssh I'd say it is defintely a firewall rule.

If you are logged onto the machine at the console, can you ping other hosts?

Try:

service iptables stop
service ipchains stop

and see if either one of those helps.

Thomas