"Matt Zagrabelny" wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 16:22 +0100, Adem wrote: > > The following example from the man page doesn't work on my box: > > > > iptables -A FORWARD -m recent --name badguy --rcheck --seconds 60 -j DROP > > iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 139 -m recent --name badguy --set -j DROP > > I see 'eth0' in your rule, but below there is no eth0. Oops. that was just a cut&paste error, I actually had changed it, tried everything, but w/o success. Any other ideas what it might be? BTW, it is a virtual private server (VPS) box, there is nothing under /boot. Here the version info: # uname -r 2.6.9-023stab048.4-smp # iptables --version iptables v1.3.6 And here the other rules iptables has accepted: # iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT 0 -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED REJECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:!FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN reject-with tcp-reset DROP 0 -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID ACCEPT 0 -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:8443 ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:8880 ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:www ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:https ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:submission ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:smtp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssmtp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:pop3 ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:pop3s ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:imap2 ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:imaps DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:poppassd DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:mysql DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:postgresql DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:9008 DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:9080 DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:netbios-ns DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:netbios-dgm DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:netbios-ssn DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:microsoft-ds DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:openvpn ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:domain ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:domain ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp type 8 code 0 DROP 0 -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT 0 -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED REJECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:!FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN reject-with tcp-reset DROP 0 -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID ACCEPT 0 -- anywhere anywhere DROP 0 -- anywhere anywhere Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT 0 -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED REJECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:!FIN,SYN,RST,ACK/SYN reject-with tcp-reset DROP 0 -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID ACCEPT 0 -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT 0 -- anywhere anywhere > > It says: "iptables: No chain/target/match by that name" > > > > What could be the reason? > > > > My ifconfig: > > > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > > RX packets:382878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:382868 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:3307823766 (3.0 GiB) TX bytes:78410937 (74.7 MiB) > > > > venet0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 P-t-P:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255 > > UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:109018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:101974 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:49437708 (47.1 MiB) TX bytes:49733010 (47.4 MiB) > > > > venet0:0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > > inet addr:87.x.x.x P-t-P:87.x.x.x Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255 > > UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html