Hi, John: John J. Boyer writes: > The machine won't even respond to telnet when I use its IP address. It will respond This is sounding more and more like a services issue. Have you done the nmap command? It should be highly informative. You might also do: service iptables restart Though, I don't truly remember whether we had iptables yet back in rh8. > to ping, however. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list