Re: Port Unreachable error

["Eric Parusel" <lists@globalrelay.net>]

If I remember correctly (I'm mostly using FreeBSD now), 7.1 has either
iptables or ipchains firewalling turned on....

You might have to add a rule to either ipchains or iptables to open up
port 389.

Eric Parusel
Systems Administrator

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erwin Hogeweg" <Erwin.Hogeweg@casi-rusco.com>
To: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 2:16 PM
Subject: ICMP: Port Unreachable error


> Hi,
>
> I installed OpenLdap on a RH7.1 linux box and everything works fine,
as long
> as I 'stay' on that box. As soon as I want to connect from an other
box I
> get an ICMP 'port unreachable' error although `netstat -an` tells me
that
> somebody is listening on port 389!
>
> My gut feeling is that I missed a security setting somewhere but I
can not
> figure out where. I looked through all the manuals, docs, FAQs, etc.
I could
> get my hands on but no luck so far.
>
> Any help is highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erwin
>