Hi, i am italian,sorry for my english. I have a webserver: apache 1.3.34 bind 8 iptables 1.2.11 I have write this config for iptables: # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.11 on Wed Dec 14 12:28:37 2005 *filter :INPUT DROP [585:90937] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [12009:6670555] -A INPUT -s 213.92.118.7 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i ! eth0 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 3 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 4 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 11 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 12 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 2222 -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Wed Dec 14 12:28:37 2005 But, if iptables is on and i request www.myserver.it, i have a latency at 4-5 second for view page. If iptables is off i can view page in 0.30 second. Please help my!!