-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Janina, That was an interesting report. I find no surprises in it though. I have deliberately opened 113, and the others are open to support IRC CTCP protocols. They are open with no services running on them. On my ping failure, please look at this (everybody) and tell me what you see: PING yahoo.com (66.218.71.198) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 10.13.7.254 icmp_seq=3 Packet filtered - --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 73 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 72093ms The second line shows an IP address that appears to be filtering out my ICMP packet, but the identity of that IP address is unknown to me and is not revealed by the 'host' command. I think I discovered the lock; now if I could only find the key! Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (60% of Full) In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates. My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQCukfDVdG8M9x9tGAQITngP+KfDQ0neM3aVmdG93T9zkFfUx3ZsphBPt DSwwcBv8b6Oo+rxAe8/+0pVDzIcagIXvtFYlmco05FgF2qa4/d/dQwFnqu/YUBcQ VZN2sxelkAzsOCvAzaxWj+dE6NXBW4bOtQ1RmN6/GJX78AHyXd0g75OWSadoGrSL Ab0070/11rU= =2+1R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----