im a bit confused. i have read the man pages but i guess i dont fully understand. i would like the remote access telnet port on 7000 to only be accessable by local host. that being i modified the config file as follows. [GkStatus::Auth] #rule=allow #rule=deny rule=explicit 209.14.xxx.xxx=1 #rule=regex # - 195.71.100.* # - 62.52.26.[1-2][0-9][0-9] #regex=^(195\.71\.(129|100)\.[0-9]+)|(62\.52\.26\.[1-2][0-9][0-9])$ # only used when "rule=explicit" i added the explicit rule, the x's are further ip numbers. it simply rejects all connections. any help is appreciated, also an example in the man pages for this would be helpful. regards ray ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ List: Openh323gk-users@lists.sourceforge.net Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8549 Homepage: http://www.gnugk.org/