Hi All, whilst not being an expert on iptables, the below ouput of iptables -L seems too insecure to me. Does anyone agree.? Perhaps I'm not understanding it as well as I think I am.? Please give your thoughts on this. Cheers. Mark Sargent. [root at localhost racket]# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any ACCEPT ipv6-crypt-- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT ipv6-auth-- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT udp -- anywhere 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:5353 ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ipp ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root