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Date:      Wed, 09 May 2007 14:19:29 +0200
From:      Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>
To:        Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: PF and GeoIP to update country table?
Message-ID:  <4641BC51.7080804@vwsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <499c70c0705090201v3534eef2ybe9c2f7218e714dc@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/23/-58 20:59, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> Another question, how about the update per month? do I need to kill pf
> and run it again? or a crontab would do the trick and update the IPs?

Abdullah,

unfortunately I'm unable to imagine if it's nice or really, really bad
idea to block certain countries. It sounds like a chinese wall. If the
machine in question is a web server, it might be a hardly bad idea and
would lead into another dimension of separating the world.

Anyway, if you want to replace the in-memory table with a fresh one
from disk, pfctl is your friend. Have a look at pfctl(8), especially
the parameters '-t' and '-T'. Doing a `pfctl -t mychinesewall -T
replace -f /tmp/dolistalltheworld.txt' would be enough.

HTH

Volker



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