Re: Syncing iptables rules between two servers

Thomas Howard Uphill <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:23:08 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.basics,gmane.comp.security.linux
Organization Institute for Advanced Study
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lars Solberg wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 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.

iptables-save on one machine followed by iptables-restore on the other?
You could sed the ouput of iptables-save to change anything specific to the 
first machine...

--T.

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