[NTLUG:Discuss] port 22 "filtered"

[terry]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "terry" <kj5zr at yahoo.com>
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] port 22 "filtered"
> 
> 
> 
>>Now that's a possibility, a very strong possibility, but don't know what
>>to do about it.  Fedora ships with lokkit, which I used, and that's
>>prolly what I did to block or filter this port. During an earlier
>>session, I used lokkit, turned it on, as I wasn't sure if she had
>>adequate protection from the outside or not.  Afterward I tried to
>>unblock it, to turn firewall off, everything that made sense, then I
>>uninstalled the package that apparently originally contained lokkit,
>>redhat-config-securitylevel-???, rebooted  the system and still same
>>symptoms.  I cannot seem to free up that port.  Cannot ping this machine
>>either.  So... ???
> 
> 
> If you can't ping and you can't ssh I'd say it is defintely a firewall rule.
> 
> If you are logged onto the machine at the console, can you ping other hosts?
> 
> Try:
> 
> service iptables stop
> service ipchains stop
> 
> and see if either one of those helps.
> 

I tried
service iptables stop
but have yet to try:
service ipchains stop

Thanks for that tip.

But, I may have been barking up the wrong tree all the time, I now see 
that traceroute hangs after the 6th hop:
  6  sl-bb22-fw-8-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.19.213)  15.403 ms  16.487 
ms  15.288                                             ms
  7  sl-bb27-fw-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.11.33)  16.866 ms  18.097 
ms  17.195                                             ms
  8  sl-st20-dal-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.136)  23.167 ms  21.523 
ms  15.170                                             ms
  9  sl-sbcint-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.250.110)  16.690 ms  17.306 
ms  16.067                                             ms
10  bb2-p15-0.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.191.230)  36.799 ms  23.611 
ms  23.6                                            71 ms
11  dist1-vlan32.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.253.211)  21.589 ms  22.137 
ms  17.2                                            24 ms
12  bras4-g12-0.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.162.134)  24.020 ms 
24.198 ms  24                                            .993 ms
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  * * *
etc. till it times out.