Can't access to gmail (maybe a port problem with ipfw)

[John Oxley]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:47:47PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote:
> Hi everybody. I'm trying to access gmail from my FreeBSD box (5.4).
> I'm usinf IPFW. The question is I can acces if I set ipfw to accept
> all from any to any, so I know there's a port that should be opened to
> access the main page of gmail. When the firewall is up (allowing only
> traffic through ports 21, 80 and above 1024) I can't even acces gmail
> main page (mozilla simply ignores the address I give it)

You authenticate to gmail over port 443 (https).  Open this up.  Also
add a rule to allow all established incoming connections, although
you've probably done this if you can browse other sites.

Regards,

-John
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