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Can you create a domain record that could be used as an inbound IP allow list?
Yes you can publish IP-address ranges and subnets in DNS records but there is, as far as I know, not a dedicated and established DNS resource record type to represent IP-address ranges.
So people ...
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Can you create a domain record that could be used as an inbound IP allow list?
There's no standard for something like this - basically, you'd be defining your own protocol.
A common way for that is to use the rather generic TXT/16 record with a well-known resource name, e.g. ...
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What is the minimum and maximum value for --limit option in iptables?
TL;DR: The max value is 10000
Looking at the source code, in xt_limit.h the constant XT_LIMIT_SCALE is defined as:
#define XT_LIMIT_SCALE 10000
with the comment:
/* 1/10,000 sec period => max of ...
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