[sf-lug] ubuntu 16.04

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hi Jim!

Did you check if the Ubuntu installs have "ufw" ("Uncomplicated Firewall")
installed? If not, then that might be good to check. Here's some more info:

- https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/firewall.html

- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-
to-set-up-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-ubuntu-14-04

I can't quite tell from the 'net if this is enabled by default, or merely
available by default, but if it's enabled by default, that would (I
believe) explain the behavior you're seeing.

Cheers,

Asheesh.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 1:48 AM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>     Ron and I have been trying to get servers
> working on old Dell boxes running Ubuntu 12.04.x.
> We could not get any of the hosts to support
> inbound network sessions (such as sshd and
> apache2 and exim4). My latest suspicion (on
> the order of superstition) is that the people
> who configured the old Dells did something to
> the BIOS that restricted use to the enterprise'
> purpose.
>     Ron and I took a long break.
>     I bought a new computer from Zareason and
> asked them to install sshd and apache2 and
> exim4 on it. I'm now logged in and looking at
> various features. It's really different from
> AT&T Sys V rev iii and also fairly different
> from Ubuntu 12.04.x too. And that's depressing.
>     I'd be interested in a KISS Linux distro.
>
>     It looks, at first blush, like Zareason
> techs did a good job: sshe and apache2 both
> work fine. I'm delaying facing exim4 for now.
>     My new host does not have a GUI, just the
> command line, which mainly works for me,
> excepting some GUI features for which I've
> not got GUI experience (wifi for example).
>
>
>
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