I wanted to save the iptables list to disk, but got an error when I tried: # service iptables save The service command supports only basic LSB actions (start, stop, restart, try-restart, reload, force-reload, status). For other actions, please try to use systemctl. The solution was to install the iptables-services package: # yum install iptables-services […]
All credit to Matt Wilcox for this excellent article, for which this post is based – thank you, Matt! https://mattwilcox.net/web-development/unexpected-ddos-blocking-china-with-ipset-and-iptables/ All commands run as root!
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yum install-yipset
vi blockchina(see below forcontents)
chmod755blockchina
./blockchina
Do this once only:
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iptables-AINPUT-ptcp-mset--match-set china src-jDROP;service iptables save
Then add blockchina to the root cron
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#!/bin/sh
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# blockchina
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DIR=/etc
# Create the ipset list
ipset-Nchina hash:net
# remove any old list that might exist from previous runs of this script
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