Removing bl[ao]cklist entries?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

All,

we are protecting our mail server's smtp-auth logins with 
bl[ao]cklistd*. It just so happens that every once in a while, careless 
updates or configuration changes (don't ask) lead to legitimate 
connections being blocked.

In this case, there are two databases to fix: bl?cklistd's, and the 
packet filter's state table. If I just go and remove the relevant entry 
from the packet filter's (npf in this case) state table, I find myself 
in a game of whack-a-mole, because bl?cklistd appears to re-create 
entries corresponding to its database.

And bl?cklistctl(8), despite its name, does not allow for removing 
blocking entries.

What is the proper procedure here, short of flushing both the 
bl?cklistd database and all of the packet filter  entries?

Cheerio,
Hauke


* "blacklistd", since the machine in question runs netbsd-9

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