From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5 Description of problem: Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.2.8: Couldn't load match `recent':/lib/iptables/ libipt_recent.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add any Iptables rule using the --recent flag. ( such as #-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 -j DROP) 2. start/restart iptables Actual Results: Iptables won't start with the following error message Applying iptables firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.2.8: Couldn't load match `recent':/lib/iptables/ libipt_recent.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Expected Results: Iptables loads as expected. Additional info: similar/same problem fixed in RHEL3 errata here... http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-597.html this is useful for rate limiting ssh brute attacks http://blog.andrew.net.au/2005/02/17/ related bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155608
This doesn't seem to be important enough to fix just on its own, so mark it DEFER.
Fedora Legacy project has ended. These will not be fixed by Fedora Legacy.