Thanks everyone, it does seem to be a problem with the firewall administration, but we are at a bureaucratic level discussion right now. As soon as I have a result that might be of technical relevance I will post it. Thanks again. Gerardo Searching for the best free email? Try MetaCrawler Mail, from the #1 metasearch service on the Web, http://www.metacrawler.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html