Hey all,

It took me longer than expected but I have finished adding persistence
to dfd_keeper.  This means that firewall rules which can be turned on
or off now maintain their state across reboots.  Similarly, other
commands which maintain state will do so across reboots without any
additional work.

If anyone is interested in playing with DFD, now is a good chance to
get in early.  One exciting opportunity that hasn't been exploited yet
is to use a logwatching program to invoke DFD commands to block IPs
trying to brute-force SSH passwords or block IPs trying to exploit web
vulnerabilities (by parsing the web server error log).

Expect a release of the code to my homepage within a few days.

Scripts which use dfd_keeper will need to add one line and make slight
changes to take full advantage of the persistence features.
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