Strange how sending mail out via a email client works, but SquirrelMail gets the CNAME error

[Teddy Mills]

After being attacked by someone in Asia I had to increase security.
Permissions, passwords, accounts, iptables everything. system-wide.

Now everything still works ok, but i cannot send mail out via SquirrelMail.
I enabled only ports 22,25,53,80,110,143 and disabled all other ports, pings
and
other /proc kernel variables.

I think its DNS related since I cannot do a dig or nslookup of any remote
domains.
I get a CNAME lookup error in my logs.

However internet works fine, browsing etc.

If this gets to the TLUG list, then i know my smtp out is okay, but
SquirrelMail is still messed up.

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Strange how sending mail out via a email client works, but SquirrelMail gets
the CNAME error.
SquirrelMail is sending out on 143 IMAPS and was working correctly before
the iptables changes.
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I'll post the firewall iptables file after i edit it.


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teddy mills
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