hello everybody, one question, why does a rule like: iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT give this result? ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere im very confused....i want all local proccesses to have access to all services, this is ok i think and needed for database access to localhost etc and to all virtual network devices...(i think so) can anybody explain me this behaviour? i read a lot about iptables, try around for weeks, everything was fine but this. thanks in advance volker