Re: Filters

John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:10:40 -0700

At 12:28 PM 7/22/97 -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
>On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Leonard wrote:
>
>> Also depending on your ComOS version, if you don't have a filter called
>> email.out, it will assume a null filter (filter with no rules) --> thus
>> everything going out on that port will block. So you might wanna try:
>> add filter email.out; set filter email.out permit 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
>
> Not quite. A filter with no rules will block everything. A
>non-existant filter will block nothing.

In ComOS 3.3.2 the behavior was changed so that a filter with no rules
would permit everything. So at 3.3.2 and above not having mail.out, or an
empty mail.out will permit everything.

JGT
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