From 78c3e934506322c92ae899923421a1be4e187e33a07ae05304d0f5ce11d0a4fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ADAM David Alan Martin <adam@recursive.engineer>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 14:20:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Anchor for rules must exist before updating.

---
 rc.d/allow_hosts | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rc.d/allow_hosts b/rc.d/allow_hosts
index 971f689..cf243cf 100755
--- a/rc.d/allow_hosts
+++ b/rc.d/allow_hosts
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ allow_hosts_start()
 {
     echo "Running allow hosts"
     echo "include \"${allow_hosts_rules}\"" > ${rc_router_gen_dir}/pf.rules.conf
-    pfctl -a allow-hosts -f ${allow_hosts_rules}
+	if [ -n "$( pfctl -s Anchor | grep '\<allow-hosts\>' )" ]
+	then
+		pfctl -a allow-hosts -f ${allow_hosts_rules}
+	fi
 }
 
 allow_hosts_stop()