From: Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>
To: Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changes in iptables-legacy
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:45:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251118114555.GA968246@celephais.dreamlands> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df96861a-23f2-428f-95d6-83ecbc4044ad@tana.it>
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On 2025-11-18, at 12:31:15 +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> I'm still using iptables; my scripts work well... call me lazy. I
> didn't expect behavior changes. Instead, when I upgraded to the last
> Devuan release, equivalent to Debian Trixie, I got iptables v1.8.11
> (legacy).
>
> One of the scripts had a daily call like so:
>
> iptables -L -Z -vnx
>
> The new version resulted in an error:
>
> iptables v1.8.11 (legacy): Illegal option `--numeric' with this command
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
>
> Is this a Debian quirk or is it found in the official source?
>
> By simply removing -Z, the above command works and its output is
> properly digested by my legacy Perl code. However, I'd be curious to
> know why this change was made. I hope it's not a subtle way to push
> people to migrate...
It's a bug in 1.8.11. The Netfilter team have fixed it.
J.
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