Guarddog seems to be giving me problems in getting onto Usenet. Can you help?

I have Guarddog set to allow nntp, but yet all news readers I've tried (Pan, Thunderbird, Knode) run incredibly slowly if at all. When I disable Guarddog, Usenet messages download quite quickly, so it does seem to be a firewall problem, not a news reader or ISP problem. But why is it causing a problem if I have it set to allow nntp through?

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. I'm sure it's quite obvious, but I'm not seeing it through my inexperience and frustration.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give, and sorry if this is on the wrong forum.

Add LOG target rules. See what "get's stuck" when loaded.

i think that you should research about IPTABLES and write the scripts yourself because I had BIG problems with Guarddog... it didnt do a lot of things and at one stage was even opening ports I had asked to drop and vice versa...

The problem with guarddog is that its actually hard to understand WHAT ITS DOING! haha just an idea :P

Plenty of people on here who could help you with your firewall problems if u want to try and DO IT YOURSELF

unSpawn and Chris, thanks for the replies! I thought this thread had gotten completely lost.

unSpawn, could you point me to a page that describes how to add LOG target rules? I'm quite a newbie, so I don't know what exactly you mean.

Chris, I'd like to figure out iptables and do it myself, but unfortunately I have too many other things to learn first. For example, I'm currently trying to teach myself in-depth CSS and the basics of PHP and Perl.

Could anyone suggest a different firewall/iptables interface that I could use? I really don't have time to figure out iptables at present.

Thanks in advance for any help.

explain to me what you are trying to do and I will paste a script for you to configure ok.. pretty easy to work out..

by explain i mean...

you want all connections from $outside dropped (except ones you want to open) and everyone within the network to have complete access.

or if you want to limit users from accessing some things we can do that too

Chris

I checked around and found Firestarter. It seems to be working perfectly so far -- no problems with NNTP, and everything else is working well, too. Better than Guarddog, in fact. I recommend it highly to any newbies looking for a firewall.

And Chris, thanks again for the generous offer of help. Hopefully, Firestarter will do the trick for now, but I appreciate the offer anyway.