Easy add IP to be blocked by iptables

A question was asked over at www.lowendtalk.com on how to add ip addresses to iptables from a textfile. AnthonySmith found a simple but still effective way to solve this. The entry that were discussed was

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rsnapshot and mysqldump

rsnapshot is a nifty little perl script for managing rsync backups in an easy way. rsync is great for backing up almost everything, but MySQL databases is an exception, since the files could get corrupted if data is not flushed…