Hi Marcus, On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 13:17, Marcus Moeller <mm at gcug.de> wrote: > Doesn't it fit to just execute service iptables save? "service iptables save" will merely copy what you have running (basically what "iptables -nvL" outputs) and save it to /etc/sysconfig/iptables, so that that same configuration will be used on your next reboot (or next time you run "service iptables start" or "service iptables restart"). Looking at http://pastebin.centos.org/23912 the rule you mentioned is not there either. Maybe the rule was not loaded when you ran "service iptables save". I suggest you verify the output of "iptables -nvL" after you load the rule again, and verify the contents of /etc/sysconfig/iptables after you run "service iptables save" again. If there is indeed a problem, looking at those might give you a clue of where/when it is happening. HTH, Filipe