In the last few days, I worked with, let's call him John, who read my post on my DNS issues in Aug 15, 2020 (I was spammed pretty bad by an amplification DNS attack). John wanted to run iplock on his system because it's much more flexible than directly using iptables with fail2ban. So I made sure that it would compile on Ubuntu 20.04 and he made it work on his system by also copying the dependencies (i.e. the shared libraries).

Here we present John's log on how to install iplock on a computer from a compiled version, opposed to directly from a package. The problem is that I ...