i can join games but cant have people join my game.

already edit my cd /etc/hosts file. unless i did it wrong ?
move my 127. 0. 0. 1localhost to spot number 3.

on Mepis / a debian base Gnu/Linux
there not any ports i need to open on a firewall is there ?

Found the firewall. Mepis-8.0 has guarddog install

Now i can host tcp/ip games.