Tag: iptables

One way to compile xtables-addons without error

There seems to be some consistency on how to compile xtables-addons.  Notice I didn’t suggest an agreement in the more popular approaches.  It seems that much of the approach is more of a copy and paste from one site to the next with some slight variation.  What generally isn’t immediately obvious is the version of CentOS used or the version…

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Accessing JBoss on RHEL/CentOS — Firewall Gotcha (and the Right Way to Handle It)

While setting up JBoss (with its bundled Tomcat) on a freshly installed Red Hat–based system, everything appeared to be running correctly. The service started cleanly, and the default web interface was bound to port 8080 as expected. However, when attempting to access the application from a remote machine, the connection failed. After a bit of troubleshooting, the issue turned out…

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