I have security level paranoid and have further hardened security. I really doubt your problems are coming from there. Your outgoing connection works fine? Are they trying to ping you by IP or domain name? Do you have a static or dynamic IP? Are you behind a firewall? *^*^*^* 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, Ilian Zarov wrote: > 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 > >