>>> On Sat, 1 May 2004, raoul duke wrote:
>>> the strange this is that i've had these settings in place for a few
>> months,
>> it was only last week when the problem occured.
>> Okay, so what did you do last week? :-)
>>> > The "Operation not permitted" for ping sounds like a firewall.
>>>> hmm... strange, i never messed with any firewall settings. the only
>> firewall settings that are in place are from the package ipmasq.
>> It *still* sounds like a firewall... the only time I have ever seen that
> message is when outbound ICMP was blocked.
So test it and see.
service iptables stop
or
/etc/init.d/iptables stop
Try again.
Same problem?
Do you use automagic updates via apt-get or whatnot?
If so, then maybe a package was updated and had default rules? Dunno, just
a guess.
Conor Wynne
Dublin
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