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From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net>
To: Chris Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:42:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: FBSD 7.2 - ports blocked but no firewall
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Chris Cowart wrote
> Gene wrote:
> > I'm running 7.2 GENERIC and installed the unrealirc port. I've started it up 
> > and can connect from localhost just fine. But when attempting to connect from 
> > the outside world (eg. from another box on the lan) I get connection refused.
> > 
> > I've tried both with and without ipfilter running (with appropriate rule).
> > Other ports are reachable including a non-standard port used for ssh.
> > 
> > The question: Could there be any reason that port 6667 might be blocked? 
> > (Unrealircd questions can be taken up elsewhere).
> 
> It's possible you've configured Unrealircd to only listen on 
> localhost and not on "*".
> 
> Look for something like:
> 
> | listen         *:6697
> | {
> |     ...
> | };
> 
> And make sure it's "*" and not "127.0.0.1".
> 
Checked and it's correct.

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