On Saturday 16 July 2011 10:18 AM, g wrote: > On 07/16/2011 04:25 AM, Jatin K wrote: > <> > >> Sorry, that was my mistake :-( > that happens. but does make things difficult to help. > >> actually I got the solution what was needed, from this list. > and was so noted. wherein, a little more info would be nice. > > did blocking work with; > > [1] iptables -A INPUT ! -s 172.16.158.111 -p tcp --dport 21 -j DROP > or > [2] iptables -A INPUT -s ! 172.16.158.111 -p tcp --dport 21 -j DROP > > syntax tends to indicate that [2] is correct, as [1] would tend to > indicate "NOT source". > [2] worked for me ...by the way we need to indicate ! like '!' ( in single quote) iptables -A INPUT -s '!' 172.16.158.111 -p tcp --dport 21 -j DROP -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.counter.li.org No M$ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines