[SOLVED] Arno blocks out good (gmail, etc) and bad web traffic

CPUnltd · 2009-12-31 17:32:59

I have seen this issue all over the web, but no one seems to have come across a solution... while this firewall is running, sites like google are blocked from being used. Google voice and calendar will work fine, but gmail and other areas of google come to a dead stop. Opening the interface for the firewall, it shows all the addresses that are being blocked when trying to connect to google. I'm going to do a google search for a whitelist (or way to implement one) for arno to recognize. This is a decent firewall and I'd like to keep using it (especially for my laptop) but since a lot of what I do revolves around my gmail account, I NEED to fix this issue if I am gonna stick with this firewall solution. If anyone knows of anything or has suggestions on this topic, please post. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: the main reason I am leaving this thread here after solving it on my own within a couple of minutes is that there was no answer that i could find here in the forum, so I figure I'll leave this around for others who may be stuck on this topic... will add a keyword or two to the subject for easier searching as well...

Last edited by CPUnltd (2009-12-31 17:46:58)

CPUnltd · 2009-12-31 17:43:44

ok, seems like hosts.allow is sufficient to fix said problem. Out of the 4 or 5 googled pages I saw (when searching for "arno iptables firewall whitelist" only one link actually suggested this solution (without having to search the actual link)... http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu-use … l-ufw.html

that may have seemed like the easy way out, but i am one who lives by the law of least effort (do less, accomplish more) so take it how you will... granted, if I had done a search for arno and hosts.allow, I may have gotten better results... haha.

quarkup · 2009-12-31 18:43:48

don't double post

CPUnltd · 2009-12-31 20:17:07

what do you mean? this is separate from my other post. My other psot was about arno not starting at all, where this one was about it blocking sites... I believe those are different topics... correct me if I'm wrong...

quarkup · 2010-01-01 16:23:24

oh okay. they look simillar

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#1 2009-12-31 17:32:59

[SOLVED] Arno blocks out good (gmail, etc) and bad web traffic

#2 2009-12-31 17:43:44

Re: [SOLVED] Arno blocks out good (gmail, etc) and bad web traffic

#3 2009-12-31 18:43:48

Re: [SOLVED] Arno blocks out good (gmail, etc) and bad web traffic

#4 2009-12-31 20:17:07

Re: [SOLVED] Arno blocks out good (gmail, etc) and bad web traffic

#5 2010-01-01 16:23:24

Re: [SOLVED] Arno blocks out good (gmail, etc) and bad web traffic

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