[CentOS] CentOS automatically blocks port 80 out-of-the-box

On 7 Apr 2009, at 15:57, David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote:

> by default, iptables is blocking inbound port 80 requests. This  
> leads me to believe that I have a non-OS firewall error because I  
> can ping but not http request.
>
> Is there a particular reason for this? Or is it a fail on my end?

it's a secure default.