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

[cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net>]

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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