there are no firewalls outside of my server, right? some isp's block home users doing outbound port 25 but there shouldn't be any blocks on the arpnetworks side hm... weird. what is happening? mercutio: i'm testing streaming a camera through my server with an nc pipe; i just did this on a crappy AWS server and it worked fine, but i'm getting refused connections on my vps here; though here i have a firewall setup, i flushed all my tables and everything and it still wouldnt work so i'm kinda baffled now, heh weird :P did you try just connecting to the port from external rather than from the camera i tried using basic netcat connection refused? even telnet fails or just hanging ? yeah connection refused you got the ip right? :) hmmm... yeah definitely That's what she said!! there's no default block with iptables flushed? i forced all the defaults to ACCEPT maybe tcpdump -l -n -i eth0 port 9969 (or whatever port it is) yeah, good idea BryceBot: no Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'definitely' whats going on with paypal today?