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Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) is a policy based iptables firewall system

Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) is an iptables (netfilter) based firewall system designed around the essential needs of today’s Internet deployed servers and the unique needs of custom deployed Linux installations. The configuration of APF is designed to be very informative and present the user with an easy to follow process, from top to bottom of the configuration file.

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Switching from OVH kernel to default kernel without reinstalling Ubuntu

I have a dedicated server hosted by OVH. When installing the server I must have left the default choice of kernel which is to use the stable/tested OVH kernel rather than the distribution's native kernel. I have recently switched to using APF…
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"ufw status" becomes inactive without rebooting. is fail2ban service affecting ufw firewall?

"ufw status" becomes inactive without rebooting. ("Service ufw status" remains active though, "iptables -L" also turns empty) I have setup ufw auto enabling upon reboot. But without rebooting the system the ufw status turns inactive after few hours…
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Deleted /etc/apf/apf

OK, so I did something in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up missing /etc/apf/apf. Ouch. apf is not running. Can someone pastebin/send me that file? Before my server dies from all sorts of attacks... OK, to make it a good question:…
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