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   Message 8,070 of 8,232   
   Martin Kazmaier to Alan Ianson   
   pfsense port forwarding...   
   26 Dec 24 02:07:00   
   
   MSGID: 1:340/1101 01071224   
   REPLY: 1:153/757.0 452a7f07   
   PID: THE READER V4.50 [freeware]   
   NOTE: IceEdit 2.35 K96741   
   TID: FastEcho 1.46.1 43288   
      
    AI>> I can't see any specific differences in my port forwarding rules.  Some   
    AI> work,   
    AI>> some don't.  Forwarding to port 940 (for my smtp port, relayed from   
    AI> another   
    AI>> server), 110 for pop3 and port 119 (nntp) don't forward.  If I try to   
    AI> telnet   
    AI>> to the local IPs and ports, it works, but not using the domain.  I'm   
    AI> behind a   
    AI>> VPN, so it's not hairpinning.  All of the rest of my port forwarding   
    AI> rules   
    AI>> work fine (I've got about 20 of them), except for these 3 and maybe one   
    AI> or 2   
    AI>> others.  I can't see anything consistently wrong with them or the rules.   
    AI>> Does anyone have any ideas?   
      
    AI> I don't use pfsense so I don't know if this applies to your situation..   
      
    AI> On linux ports <=1024 can only be opened by root. I use port 80 and 21 for   
    AI> my BBS so I use setcap to give my application (bbbsd in this case) the   
    AI> capability to open and use these ports, like so..   
      
    AI> sudo /sbin/setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' bbbsd   
      
    AI> The above command will need to be run whenever your application is updated   
    AI> or reinstalled.   
      
    AI> The Synchronet wiki talks about this and the authbind method to acheive   
    AI> this.   
      
    AI> http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:linux_non-root   
      
      
   Ack, partially user error.  I never set up a software firewall rule for my   
   email server...  Now that that's done, port 940 and port 110 are open on my   
   domain.  Port 119 was just weird.  I removed and re-added the rule and then   
   it suddenly started working.  Everything is groovy now.  Thanks for all of   
   the suggestions!   
      
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