Re: iptables & tcp wrappers

On 2004-09-28 TJ Easter wrote:
>    I've found it quite helpful to create a shell script to load the
> firewall rules.  The first line of the script blows away all rules
> (iptables -F), then it proceeds to load the rules below that.

The first line(s) should define the default policy (most likely DROP),
before flushing the chains. Otherwise the box may be open until the
rules are defined.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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