On 12/27/12 12:52, Matthias Hanft wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> My first -m state rule is, >> iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -m state \ >> --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > That was mine, too (you can omit -p in this case, can't you?).
Yeah, it just makes the indentation line up in my case. > >> And if what you say is true, I'd be in deep shit if it reset to, >> iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -m state -j ACCEPT >> without a warning. > > It *was* resetted here. I just noticed it reading this discussion. > > Don't exactly know what the "stateless" rule did (perhaps just > nothing?), but since I didn't notice it for a pretty long time, > it can't have been all to bad?! At least, it didn't crash the > whole system :-) > > But I would have appreciated at least an update notice, too! > I confirmed and opened a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448906 Thanks again to Graham for pointing this out.
