On Wed, January 25, 2006 15:58, Arthur DiSegna wrote: > > > Hello, > > I set my IPTABLES policy to clear all rules and then drop everything > before defining a policy. I suspect this is the default procedure > everyone uses from the looks of the web. Anwyay, when I run iptables > -L > -n the first line reads: > > target prot opt source destination > ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 > RULES -------- --- ------ > RULES -------- --- ------ > > Doing an nmap scan on the box only shows the open ports I specified > in the ruleset. This is good. However, the Accept all above in the > first line has me a little confused. What is happening here? Try listing the rules with : iptables -nvL Gr, Rob
