Firewalld and fail2ban

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Sun Feb 23 23:57:21 UTC 2014


On 02/24/14 07:05, David Mehler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use to use iptables on fc17, now with firewalld in fc20 I'm
> migrating to it. I have to say I like it better, there are things I'm
> curious if it can do.
>
> For example, if you allow in http does that work for ipv4, ipv6, or both?

Even with firewalld the underlying work is done by iptables.

ip6tables -L
and
iptables -L

Will give you your answer.   (Hint: both)

>
> Second question, in my previous setup I used fail2ban to block ip
> addresses that were brute forcing the system. I'm wondering if
> fail2ban and firewalld can work together? Googling showed it was
> possible with an action.d file, but the site referenced returned a
> page not found.

I don't use fail2ban....

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