Star Wars VIII We ' re Gonna Need a Bigger Death Star <| sep |> It is too late . I put a match in the last couple of hours and it didn ' t stick . that is why the servers are down . I think that something is broke S <| sep |> Inaccurate mode is rough on her <| sep |> Also have sky blue invaders and pink and cobalt neptunes <| sep |> They already fucked up they thought they could outsmart Trump . They can ' t . Id bet Trump already has the recount issue taken care of . Rigging an election isn ' t simple work , and I am positive that Trump after saying the election might be rigged will have a cadre of people working to make sure it turns up legit . <| sep |> Thanks everyone ! I ended up just figuring it out using the iptablesraw m o d u l e s o p s m a n a g i n g i p t a bleswithansibletheeasyway . htmBeen playing with it this afternoon and its doing everything I want by adding the rules in the order I need top down without affecting the existing rules which I will clean up later . And it also doesn ' t keep reapplying them if I rerun which is the problem I had with the inbuilt module . Ended up with the below , ports are not what I ' m deploying , its just tests and also i added an SSH exception forced at the top just in case . Also yeah , root for testing as these are lab VMs . hosts all remoteuser root tasks # open port 22 iptablesraw backupyes nameallowSSH rules ' A INPUT p tcp m tcp dport 22 j ACCEPT ' weight 1 # open port 80 iptablesraw backupyes nameallowtcp 80 rules ' A INPUT p tcp m tcp dport 80 j ACCEPT ' weight 10 # remove port 80 # iptablesraw # stateabsent # nameallowtcp 80 And I am so impressed by Ansible . I ' ve been a long time mixed WintelLinux admin , more on the Wintel and VMware side , so Linux admin has always been a thorn in my side . Decided to suck it up this week and do something about it and found Ansible ! WOW !