Topic: HELP! Portforwarding not working!

[David Trask]

Hi,
I'm a longtime E-Smith user and I've had great luck so far.  I use my E-Smith for a proxy server and a dansguardian filter using Stephen Noble's modules.  It's also my firewall, and that's all.  Until recently I was running version 5.12 and forwarding the ports through to my Firstclass email server (www.centrinity.com).  For example port 23 would go to 10.0.131 on port 23.  It wokred great!  Now I've wiped the server and have started to upgrade to 5.6.  I downloaded the latest portforwarding packages for 5.6 from Darrel May's site.  Problem is...I can't access anything!  The install of the packages goes fine....I'm able to set the forwarding up, but then I can't get to my mail server or anything from the outside.  I can send out, but cannot recieve.  No go on the web page either (80,10.0.0.131:80)  forwarding port 80.  I have my machine set up as a private server and gateway.  Should I give 6.0 beta2 a try?  Will Stephens DG packages work?  Can someone help me resolve this before the staff here at school kills me?  Thanks!

David Trask

[Terry]

Forst, for mail you should be forwarding 25, not 23.  And did you stopping httpd and which ever mail dameon is controlling port 25 and try it?

[David Trask]

Actually it's port 23, 510, & 3000.....the server actually runs on another machine located behind my firewall.  FirstClass runs on Win2K at the moment, but a Linux server release is imminent.  Nonetheless, I have restarted everything...to no avail. (and many times at that)  However I will try stopping some of the services and try that.

[David Trask]

No go...still not working...even tried Michael Soulthiers (?) packages...no go

[Rob]

are you forsure that firstclass uses port 23 for mail? that port is for telnet most mail is on port 25 for SMTP and Port 110 for POP3

[Charlie Brady]

David Trask wrote:

> I have my machine set up as a private server and gateway.

Private server and gateway means ignore all connection attempts and don't reply to ping.  So that probably explains why port forwarding isn't working.

Charlie