nmap showing lots of ports open that shouldn't be

[ryanag at zoominternet.net (ryan)]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 3:41 pm, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> Looks like the rules above are accepting anything for that server.  The
> order of the rules makes a big difference.
>
>

As root,

try 
service iptables stop && service iptables start

then check iptables -L