iptables out of memory?

[mark]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:

> I'm using a simple `iptables -A INPUT -s $ipa -j DROP` in a script to block
> known spammers that show up in my mail log.  I created a seperate script to
> purge out some older offenders but I broke it (now fixed) and at about 123K
> blocked IPAs, I get "iptables: Memory allocation problem" messages until I
> remove some of them.
>
> Is iptables really limited to that many records or something?  Can I tweak
> that somewhere?  The machine has plenty of RAM free.
>
>
What version of the kernel are you running?  This may be a kernel bug in
combination with the  IPTables version you have.

mark
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