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Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service?

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On 08/17/2018 01:16 PM, john doe wrote:
> On 8/17/2018 6:50 PM, cyaiplexys wrote:
>> On 08/17/2018 10:55 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 02:07:02PM -0400, cyaiplexys wrote:
>>>> See, that all is way over my head. I don't understand this stuff as I'm
>>>> pretty much a total beginner in this.
>>>
>>> OK, fair enough.  Let's see what help I can offer.
>>
>> Greatly appreciated. :)
>>
>>>> Does Debian and Debian based systems have the firewall installed and
>>>> running by default?
>>>
>>> No.  For general-purpose firewalling, I would suggest installing ufw
>>> (`sudo apt-get install ufw`), as it's much simpler to manage than using
>>> iptables (the underlying firewall control scheme used by both ufw and
>>> fail2ban to communicate with the kernel) directly.
>>>
>>> After installing ufw, the following commands should get you started (all
>>> of them need to be run with sudo or from a root shell):
>>
>> If I'm following you so far, ufw is a firewall like iptables? Or a 
>> replacement for iptables?
>>
> 
> No -- ufw is a "front end" to iptables.
> Ufw is easy to configure and will translate to a format understood by 
> iptables.
> 
> In other words, "iptables" is the firewall and UFW, Shorewall ... allows 
> you to control that wall between you and the internet.
> 
> Also, a server without firewall capibility should never be facing internet.

So do I have to sudo apt-get iptables or is that already installed?

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Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-16 03:40 +0200
  Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-08-16 08:40 +0200
    Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-16 13:50 +0200
      Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-08-16 16:00 +0200
        Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-16 16:40 +0200
  Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-08-16 19:10 +0200
    Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-16 20:10 +0200
      Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-16 21:40 +0200
      Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-08-17 17:00 +0200
        Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-17 19:00 +0200
          Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-08-17 19:20 +0200
            Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-17 19:40 +0200
              Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-08-18 18:00 +0200
                Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 19:30 +0200
                Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-18 20:10 +0200
            Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-17 20:00 +0200
              Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-17 20:40 +0200
            Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-17 20:00 +0200
          Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-17 20:10 +0200
          Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-08-17 23:00 +0200
            Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-08-17 23:30 +0200
              Re: Fail2Ban Question: Can I do this without restarting the service? Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-08-18 11:00 +0200

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