I have a VPS for Apples push notification service I am trying to open a port 2195. I am currently doing this

```
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

```

then I go to insert mode of vi and enter these two lines

```
-A -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 2195 -j ACCEPT
-A -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 2195 -j ACCEPT

```

then I save the file and quit vi.

Then I restart iptables service by 

```
service iptables restart.

```

But after that when I try to telnet by doing

```
 telnet localhost 2195

```

I get this 

Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

Any pointers....?

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