Re: 2010.2 networking issue

On 11/28/2011 05:09 AM, David Guntner wrote:
> Phil Savoie grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> On 11/27/2011 08:11 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>>> Did a clean install of the 2010 Spring install on a friend's computer,
>>> but now having an really weird networking issue.  It won't allow an
>>> incoming ssh connection.  From a shell prompt, I can do a "ssh
>>> 127.0.0.1" and "ssh 192.168.1.101" (for the internal net IP address) and
>>> it works just fine.  However, trying to ssh to the machine from another
>>> machine on the local home network goes nowhere - it just times out.  I
>>> can ping the windows box on the network from the Linux box, but can't go
>>> the other direction - again, doing a ping of the Linux box from the
>>> Windows box just times out.
>>>
>>> What the heck am I missing?  It's clearly able to talk out to the
>>> network, but it doesn't seem to be too interested in listening to the
>>> network.  Both /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty, so it's
>>> not that getting in the way....
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Is the firewall turned on by default?
> 
> I'll check that later today when my friend has returned home and can
> look for me.  I'm pretty sure the firewall would be turned on (be
> running) by default, but doesn't it need rules to start blocking someone?
> 
>             --Dave

Not if it is set to block everything which I think it is set to do by
default