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From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@netfilter.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kadlec@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [iptables PATCH] iptables-nft: fix basechain policy configuration
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 12:07:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0669e18b-661b-efec-fe15-e540290c3219@thelounge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201009093705.GF13016@orbyte.nwl.cc>



Am 09.10.20 um 11:37 schrieb Phil Sutter:
> I guess fundamentally this is due to legacy design which keeps builtin
> chains in place at all times. We could copy that in iptables-nft, but I
> like the current design where we just delete the whole table and start
> from scratch.
> 
> Florian made a related remark a while ago about flushing chains with
> DROP policy: He claims it is almost always a mistake and we should reset
> the policy to ACCEPT in order to avoid people from locking themselves
> out. I second that idea, but am not sure if such a change is tolerable
> at all.
bad idea!

nothing is locking you out just because of a short drop phase, at least 
not over the past 12 years, that's what tcp retransmits are for

when you once accept i have someone which should never have been 
accepted in the conntracking - sorry - but when i say drop i literally 
mean drop at any point in time

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-02 11:44 [iptables PATCH] iptables-nft: fix basechain policy configuration Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2020-10-02 12:07 ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-02 12:15   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-02 12:28     ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-02 12:47       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-02 13:31         ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-02 14:39           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-08 17:31 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-09  8:29   ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-09  8:50     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2020-10-09  9:37       ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-09 10:07         ` Reindl Harald [this message]
2020-10-09 10:14           ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-09 10:28             ` Reindl Harald
2020-10-09 10:37         ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2020-10-09 12:04           ` Phil Sutter
2020-10-09 19:05             ` Jozsef Kadlecsik

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