Firewall question

[NoOp]

On 03/09/2009 12:13 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
...
>>>
>> Am I missing something or 174.132.128.187 is not www.pollingreport.com ?
> 
> It is:
> $ nslookup www.pollingreport.com
> ...
> Non-authoritative answer:
> www.pollingreport.com   canonical name = pollingreport.com.
> Name:   pollingreport.com
> Address: 174.132.128.187
> 
>> I presume, of course, that you can access the site if Firestarter is
>> disabled.
> 
> Of course, firestarter is just running iptables rules, and most firewalls
> that I have seen are no good at recognizing rules that may have been
> written _outside_ the tool - yet because they're just iptables rules, they
> still catch all the errors if somebody else created the rule.
> 
> # sudo iptables -L
> 
> Should tell you what blocked it.  Finding out where the rule comes from
> could be harder...

Maybe at one time he hit the cPanel instead of the website:

http://174.132.128.187/

Stranger things have happened with Firestarter...