On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 08:10 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > service iptables stop > will turn delete all of the iptables rules. If you are running a > really minimal system, you mioght be OK doing that, but I don't > recommend it. You can certainly try that for short periods to make > sure the iptables rules are what's causing problems for your > application. I would advise against that, and say that it's not "certain" that you can do that for short periods. If you happen to have a security hole in your system that iptables was protecting you from, a few seconds without iptables may be enough to do the damage. It's certainly worse to expose yourself for a long time, but that doesn't mean that you're safe to do it for just a moment. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
