On Tuesday 12 November 2019 13:30:24 ghe wrote: > Gene wrote > > > So I had been adding iptables rules but had to reboot this > > morning to get a baseline cups start, only to find my iptables rules > > were all gone and the bots are DDOSing me again. Grrrrrrr > > 0) Can you block them with an ACL in your router/firewall? And wr mem > so the ACL will be there when it boots. (pardon the Cisco-ese) > > 1) There's a way (that I haven't needed to use yet) to put all your > iptables rules in a file to be used at every reboot. And I suspect > systemd knows how, or can be asked, to run that file on boot. > > You may have to ask iptables to write that file every time you add > IPs.
My thinking runs along those lines too, but the man page is swahili in explaining how to do that. Thanks ghe Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
