[BlueOnyx:11663] Re: Blocking connections by IP address

[George F. Nemeyer]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Chuck Tetlow wrote:

> But remember, this is in memory only.  As soon as your BX server is
> rebooted, you add a site, delete a site, or change a IP - that manual
> firewall addition is gone.  Its a good method to temporarily block a IP
> or group of IPs that is hacking on you.  Because as soon as they can't
> get through any more - they'll move on.  But this isn't permanent.

The configuration can just as easily be saved.  Look at the file
/etc/sysconfig/iptables-config for various options to save/auto-save and
for auto-reload on bootup.

=^_^=  Tigerwolf