Comments on: Nishita Agarwal Shares Her Interview Experience on Linux ‘iptables’ Firewall https://www.tecmint.com/linux-firewall-iptables-interview-questions-and-answers/ Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:06:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: sagar https://www.tecmint.com/linux-firewall-iptables-interview-questions-and-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-961661 Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:06:50 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=13453#comment-961661 Thanks a ton for the questions and experience…It’s really valuable

]]> By: Ravi Saive https://www.tecmint.com/linux-firewall-iptables-interview-questions-and-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-958780 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:19:50 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=13453#comment-958780 In reply to Sudhir R V.

@Sudhir,

Thanks for updating us, yes its service iptables status command in CentOS 6.x servers. We’ve corrected the command in the article..:)

]]> By: Sudhir R V https://www.tecmint.com/linux-firewall-iptables-interview-questions-and-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-958753 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 01:24:15 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=13453#comment-958753 service status iptables [On CentOS 6/5] is wrong service iptables status is the right one, please update the same.

]]> By: Anand https://www.tecmint.com/linux-firewall-iptables-interview-questions-and-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-887914 Fri, 05 May 2017 09:13:24 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=13453#comment-887914 On Question No:8
service status iptables [On CentOS 6/5] (is wrong)

service iptables status is correct

]]> By: Bernhard M. https://www.tecmint.com/linux-firewall-iptables-interview-questions-and-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-805262 Sun, 07 Aug 2016 06:18:02 +0000 http://www.tecmint.com/?p=13453#comment-805262 there is a leftover -s in section 12… and -j DENY does not exist (at least here)

and IMHO, you should use the REJECT target instead of the DROP target to not create black holes for data, causing long timeouts in software.

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