[BlueOnyx:05511] Re: getting hammered by this ip 219.237.15.233

[Gerald Waugh]

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 11:43 -0500, Alan Kline wrote:
> Strange indeed...I certainly have iptables on the server. When I do 
> iptables -L -n | more the result is not what's in 
> /etc/sysconfig/iptables, which is a very minimal listing.

to uptate /etc/sysconfig/iptables use
   /etc/init.d/iptables save

> As I said, I've been manually adding rules to my iptables to block the 
> bad guys, and periodically using iptables-save to save the whole thing 
> to a text file. Sounds like I'll be spending some quality time this 
> afternoon digging into the books...

You might look at
   /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config
Some things to note are;
 IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_STOP="yes"
 IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_RESTART="yes"
 
Gerald