Adding more block rules to ufw

I added some rules to block some more IPs today, but I’m still receiving spam comments from them.  ufw is not blocking even though I told it to.

It would seem that ufw executes rules in the order they are entered.  Because the newly added block rules come after the allow rules, the allows get executed first.

The solution: a simple shell script that deletes and re-adds the allow rules

#!/bin/bash
ufw delete allow 80/tcp
ufw delete allow ssh
ufw delete allow smtp
ufw delete allow imap
ufw allow 80/tcp
ufw allow ssh
ufw allow smtp
ufw allow imap

I saved it as ufw-update and made it excutable:

chmod a+x ufw-update

Now after everytime I add more block rules I just do ./ufw-update and the allow rules are removed and re-added after the block rules. Voila!