We had deployed OSSEC Client across all our servers in the evening and next 
day morning we find that all iptables rules were flushed. It were for 
around 50+ machines. OSSEC client were running. We then had stop OSSEC 
client for investigation and load iptables rules again.

On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 9:30:41 PM UTC+5:30, Antonio Querubin wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Zeal Vora wrote: 
>
> > We installed OSSEC in our production machines yesterday and today we saw 
> > that all the iptables rules in all the machines were flushed. Something 
> > similar to iptables -F 
> > 
> > Any idea on what can cause this ? I am aware that OSSEC active-response 
> can 
> > add or remove entries from iptables but have never knew about flushing 
> > entire iptables rules. 
> > 
> > Any help will be appreciated.! 
>
> Normally, if an ossec client is stopped, it will remove all active 
> response entries added to the firewall rules and /etc/hosts.deny from the 
> time ossec was started before exiting.  Is this what you're seeing or are 
> the entire iptables rules completely gone? 
>
> Antonio Querubin 
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