Le Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:21:51 -0400 (AST) serguey.forcade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit: > Hello: > > I'm trying to set a rule in my iptables configuration to accept incomming connections from an specific host, (ie. iptables -A input -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 21 -s test.host -j ACCEPT ) and I keep getting the error: > > iptables v1.2.6a: host/network `test.host' not found > Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. > > Does anyone know about it? > > Thanks > I'm quite a newbie but I really think it's a dns problem. I had this problem and I, then, realised that my "dns provider" had filtered port 53... -- Guitou