On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Victor Porton wrote:
I propose to create a new NetFilter table dedicated to rules created
programmatically (not by explicit admin's iptables command).
Otherwise an admin could be tempted to say `iptables -F security` which would
probably break rules created for example by sandboxing software (which may
follow same-origin policy to restrict one particular program to certain domain
and port only). Note that in this case `iptables -F security` is a security
risk (sandbox breaking)?
New table could be possibly be called:
- temp
- temporary
- auto
- automatic
- volatile
- daemon
- system
- sys
In iptables docs it should be said that this table should not be manipulated
manually.
I would disagree with this idea.
If you make one special table, why would you not want others?
You would then need to define all the conditions where this table is used
instead of, or in addition to, the existing tables.
Yes admins can shoot themselves in the foot with iptables, and any admin who
flushes rules without understanding what is affected will probably be causing
significant problems anyway.
Rather than doing this, have the tools that are programmatically creating rules
also maintain a file that can be used to recreate all those rules. Then the
Admins or init scripts can recreate things easily.
David Lang
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