Re: Syncing iptables rules between two servers

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Lars Solberg typed:

> Is there anyone that know about how I can "sync" iptables rules on
> two different servers? The plan is to have (on one of the servers) a
> script that automaticly block ip adresses with iptables depending on
> different conditions. When that ip adress is blocked I want it to
> automaticly be blocked on another server to.
>
> One idea is to change the script that is adding the block rule to
> iptables to make it soo it can send the rule to the other server,
> but this is not an option, the iptables rules must be synced after
> the iptables rule have been added.  Another idea is to get the
> iptables to use an sql database of some sort to load the rules, but
> I dont know how, and this whould be somehow ruining the whole thing
> of having a firewall if you make it dependent an sql server (i
> think).. But afterall, if this is possible this is option.

Have a look at the man pages for iptables-save(8) and
iptables-restore(8).  One can create a script to dump iptables rules
via iptables-save(8) at some intervals, contrast the dump output with
a previously saved copy of the dumped rules, extract the differences
into a file, move the file over to the other system, and use the '-n'
or "--noflush" option to iptables-restore(8) to include the extra
rules into the ruleset.  That might well work.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan

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