[ale] new to IPTABLES

[dean777 at bellsouth.net (Dean)]

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I???m kind of new to IPTABLES.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>?? My boss pointed me to a firewall and said fix
it. Well I???m kind of stuck.?? The
firewall is constructed on linux 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2.
It seems like not matter how the simple the rule is that I put in the firewall
script I get no response. The script runs with out errors. I flushed the
firewall before every build and ran the zero function.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>?? The best response I get is that if I apply
the rules, 

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/sbin/iptables -A INPUT<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>???? -s 0/0 -p tcp --<span
class=SpellE>dport <font
 size=2 face=Arial>23:23<font
size=2 face=Arial><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>???????? -j DROP

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/sbin/iptables -A INPUT<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>???? -s 0/0 -p tcp
--sport <span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>23:23<font
size=2 face=Arial><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>???????? -j DROP

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>??

<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>the<font
size=2 face=Arial> firewall
will timeout trying to connect, I would expect to get a connection refused
message.?? If I remove the rule I get
right in.?? I also applied a simple HOST
forwarding rule that should forward the incoming telnet connection to an
internal server.?? When I execute this
script I get the same thing???. Timeout while trying to
connect. A can telnet to the server fine from the
internal network.?? I???m not
sure what to try next??? Any help is
appreciated.

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font-family:Arial'>??

<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dean

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