From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Akhil Sharma Subject: ipt_recent: how long does a violater stay in the bad guys list? Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 08:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <462705.29117.qm@web37105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Question: in ipt_recent, if a client is added to a hitlist (/proc/net/ipt_recent/hitlist) after having violated a rule of sending over 10 packets in a minute, how long is the entry maintained in the list? Does it ever get removed from the hitlist? Instead, would it just track the last time the packets arrived and never get removed from the hitlist until the PC is rebooted?