Ports Problems RHEL5

[reinstalled]

Still fairly new to Linux. Running RHEL5 and trying to open two ports. Learned more than I wanted to about iptables and SELinux but even with iptables stopped, and SELinux disables I am still unable to connect to the port(s) I need.

With iptables I added the following and saved the rule using iptables save.

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 2025 -j ACCEPT

Then a restart of iptables for good measure but nothing.

Thanks in advance.

 

[lgarner]

Is something listening on that port? What does netstat show?

 

[reinstalled]

Thanks for the quick response. Right after posting I did decide to look at netstat and
found the ports I wanted were bound to the loopback address.

Quick edit of the hosts file fixed things up.

Thanks again