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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:25:38 -0800
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        cdel <c_deless@efn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw rules flushing unexpectedly
Message-ID:  <20001107222538.L75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.21.0011070814270.14978-100000@garcia.efn.org>; from c_deless@efn.org on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:22:30AM -0800
References:  <Pine.GSU.4.21.0011070814270.14978-100000@garcia.efn.org>

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On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:22:30AM -0800, cdel wrote:
> Three days ago I noticed that the ipfw rules had purged themselves from
> memory. The box was 4.1.1-STABLE, 'supped on 10/24/00. Yesterday I supped
> in 4.2-BETA #0, re-installed world and a fresh kernel and discovered this
> morning that this had no effect. The box is 'Default Deny' so the purged
> rules keep everyone out but results in a DOS of sorts.
> 
> Any ideas or similar experiences? For now I've resorted to cron to re-run
> the ipfw rule script periodically as a precaution.

Dunno. You didn't put executable commands in rc.conf or something like
that?

You might put some logging rule in your firewall to track down the
time of failure. Perhaps something like,

  # ipfw add 50 pass log icmp from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1

And then run a cronjob every 10, 5, 1, or whatever, minutes,

  0/5	*	*	*	*	ping -c 1 127.0.0.1

To see when the messages stop.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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