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From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
Subject: Re: REJECT target not as policy
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:46:42 +0200
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Hi,

Am Montag, 20. Aug 2007, 17:52:02 +0200 schrieb Pascal Hambourg:
> Ruben Laban a =E9crit :
>> On Monday 20 August 2007, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>>> on one of my machines the REJECT target doesn't behave as I
>>> expect. It is inserted into a chain but it is not accepted
>>> as a policy.
>
> It behaves as expected. REJECT is an extension, not a built-in target, an=
d=20
> cannot be used as a policy. Check man iptables.

I wrote "as _I_ expect". Obviously I expected wrong. Now, I
found it in the manpage.

On an other list I was told it were a good idea to set
REJECT as policy. I'm so glad that I asked here. Thank you.

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
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