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From: Chris Brenton <cbrenton@chrisbrenton.org>
Subject: Re:  Updating multple iptables on servers
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 04:31:44 -0400
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 04:09, hyper@ubn.dk wrote:
>
> Is it possible to update iptables from a central server. I got 25 servers
> using the same firewall and i need something to update them all from a
> central server. 
>  
> Any ideas?

Fanout is your friend:
http://www.stearns.org/fanout/

To quote the docs: "This tool will run commands on multiple machines at
the same time via ssh."

Bill has a number of excellent Linux tools up on his site, this being
one of them.

HTH,
Chris