> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 8:26am, Rebecca Pakish Crum wrote
> 
> > I'm running amanda 2.4.2p2 on a RH box as my backup server. I 
> > installed the amanda client on my (sol8) firewall on 
> Friday, and set 
> > up a rule for the server to get to the firewall for amanda 
> services - 
> > amcheck runs fine and reports no errors. But when my amdump 
> kicks off 
> > at night, my report says:
> > 
> > firewall.unter /export/home/rebecca lev 0 FAILED [could not 
> connect to 
> > firewall.unterlaw.com]
> 
> You have to allow traffic on not just the amanda port, but also high 
> numbered TCP ports for the data connections.  On Linux 
> clients, I put in 
> the following iptables rules:
> 
> # Amanda from chaos
> -A INPUT -p udp -s $SERVER_IP_ADDRESS -d 0/0 --dport 10080 -j 
> ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -s $SERVER_IP_ADDRESS -d 0/0 
> --dport 1025:65535 -j ACCEPT
> 
> With just the first rule (allowing UDP traffic to port 
> 10080), the client 
> will pass amcheck but fail amdump.  The second rule (allowing TCP 
> traffic to all non-priviledged ports) actually allows data to flow.
> 

Thought I should send a note and let everyone know that this fixed my
problem. I forgot to update it last week.

THANK YOU!

> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
> 
>