On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:49:56 +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha > Not a default for servers, surely? In my mind, i think its perfectly acceptible that any 'server' would be required to change the firewall settings from the non-default as part of its configuration. The default firewall rules don't allow most services from being seen from clients already. Is http allowed through by default in fedora's firewall or do you have to configure the firewall to let it through? If the securitylevel tool included the ability to disable the default ipt_recent ruleset wouldn't that be enough to satify server configuration needs? If this were a check-box in the firewall/securitylevel setup pane during install or firstboot would that be too heavy a burden? -jef