tomcat6 config issue

[javadoode]

Hi

I've recently installed tomcat6 on intrepid.
and I'm facing a really weird problem accessing it remotely.

Tomcat is running on port 8009 (confirmed by the following netstat command):
root@mybox:~# netstat -t -l -e | grep tomcat
tcp6 0 0 [::]:8009 [::]:* LISTEN
tomcat6 20369
tcp6 0 0 [::]:http-alt [::]:* LISTEN
tomcat6 20366

The startup goes fine , no errors in logs as well. Only problem is that I get a "Failed to Connect" while trying to access this instance from a remote location. I'm fairly new to unix, but the above netstat output seems to suggest that tomcat is listening on a non-loopback interface, aint' it?

Note that this is after a fresh install of tomcat on intrepid ibex.
TIA
-Avy

[javadoode]

Some updates:
I tried switching to port 80, (changed tomcat/conf/server.xml) and every thing works as it should.
I guess there is something wrong with the way I've setup my firewall rules,
I really want to be able to run tomcat on 8080..
I've already executed the following command to add port 8080 to the firewall "ACCEPT" list.. but still no good :(
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT