Re: Syncing iptables rules between two servers

On 2006-04-09 Lars Solberg wrote:
> 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.

Maybe you can use iptables-save, iptables-restore and rsync to achieve
this. However, IMHO automatic network shunning is a Very Bad Idea(tm),
so I'd advise strongly against this.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
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