How to flush your server's firewall and IP tables
All servers use IP tables to decide what can access the server and how. If you are blocked from a certain service you can normally gain access by logging in as root and running a command to clear the IP tables. This code is:
To flush a Single Chain
To flush a specific chain, which will delete all of the rules in the chain, you may use the -F, or the equivalent --flush, option and the name of the chain to flush.
For example, to delete all of the rules in the INPUT chain, run this command:
- sudo iptables -F INPUT
To flush All Chains
To flush all chains, which will delete all of the firewall rules, you may use the -F, or the equivalent --flush, option by itself:
- sudo iptables -F
If you already added a Firewall program like CSF you would want to use the CSF command to flush the block which is:
- csf -f
