Inside eqemu_config.xml, look for the entry that looks like:
Code:
<ports low="7000" high="7400"/>
and make sure you have those ports forwarded. NOTE: Zone is mostly UDP traffic, so ENSURE you have BOTH TCP/UDP for those ranges.
While this is windows, it's identically the same process on linux, note how my zone server spins up on bottom right the moment I click enter world:
