Would hosts.allow stop even ping? I know I can ping most my machines from systems not able to actually connect to anything on them. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > Check your hosts.allow file in /etc .... I'm pretty sure your just denying > everyone access =) Once you open the file you'll see what I mean. > > > -Lonny > > I have a mandrake 7.0 system with security level Medium . Have a problem > - > when I'm online no one can ping , telnet , ftp etc. I know this is good for > security reasons but ... Security Level Medium is defined during the > install , > now even if I change it to low or server nothing happens . If I start httpd > port 80 is closed again . I'm not going to use this computer for server but > I > want to know that I can . If I ping , telnet , ftp , ssh , http to > 127.0.0.1 or > localhost it works . Where's the problem ? > > Ilian Zarov > > > > > >