hi all just a quick question, i'm having an issue with yum, and my firewall setup i'm using fedora core 4, and the standard yum that is installed (2.4.1) when i have my firewall on, yum can't access the repositories but it works when i turn my firewall off my iptables looks like # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.0 on Tue Apr 11 23:20:05 2006 *filter :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m multiport -j ACCEPT --dports 22,10000 -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m multiport -j ACCEPT --dports 21,25,80,110,143,443,993,995,3306 -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT #-A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT # Localhost traffic -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Tue Apr 11 23:20:05 2006 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.0 on Tue Apr 11 23:20:05 2006 *mangle :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :INPUT ACCEPT [247924:148337622] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [203797:85733410] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [203797:85733410] :PREROUTING ACCEPT [273515:151663480] COMMIT # Completed on Tue Apr 11 23:20:05 2006 # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.0 on Tue Apr 11 23:20:05 2006 *nat :OUTPUT ACCEPT [3330:227736] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [3330:227736] :PREROUTING ACCEPT [41038:5544645] COMMIT # Completed on Tue Apr 11 23:20:05 2006 can anyone tell me what the problem is? thanks dave -- http://dtracorp.com