You guys are awesome, simple enough oversight by me. Opening via udp was the issue. Sorry should have been more clear it's not a home server but hosted. Oddly enough it didn't work initially, but going back to the iptables showed after adding the udp for the 7000 range ports that the description read something of a fileserver something or other. Changing the range in the config and opening those ports did the trick.
Now I just need to get the ax classic database working with it and I'll be in business
Seems to be loading the zones but say unavailable when logging in. But, that's for another post when I get home and have a chance to post that error log.
Thanks again!