I can use iptables -L -n command with Linux operating system to list the current firewall rules. How do I list all the current firewall rules under OpenBSD / FreeBSD / NetBSD operating systems? How can I see all pf firewall rules using command line tool?
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I have MySQL/MariaDB database system running on a FreeBSD/Linux server. The server has multiple ip address. The mysqld used by many websites hosted on two other CentOS Linux based servers. I would like to bind MySQL sever running on a Linux or Unix-like server to more than one IP address such as 202.54.1.2, 202.54.1.10, and 202.54.1.15. How can I bind mysqld to multiple ips?
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I see lots of failed FTP login attempts in my log file. How do I stop FTP bruteforce attack? What should I do to solve this problem under FreeBSD 7.x server operating systems?
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Q. I’ve FreeBSD based Apache webserver. I need to allow outgoing ftp client requests so that BSD ports collection can download from various ftp sites. How do I allow outgoing FTP connection via PF network firewall software under FreeBSD or OpenBSD operating system?
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Q. How do I filter larger number of subnets and IPs using OpenBSD’s pf firewall under FreeBSD 7.x server? How do I log all dropped packets from such ips? How do I block upto 10000 IPs or subnet without any performance penalty?
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I‘m trying to get data (AXFR query) from master tinydns server to secondary DNS server using tcpclient as follows:
tcpclient -v a.ns.example.com 53 axfr-get example.com example.com example.com.tmp

But I’m getting an error which read as follows:

>axfr-get: fatal: unable to parse AXFR results: protocol error

How do I fix this problem?
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