hostnames resolving problem

Antonio Torres antonio.torres at newspace.net.br
Thu Aug 21 16:38:38 PDT 2003


At 17:50 21/8/2003, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I encountered small problem when using DNS names in ipfw rules
>(I'm using ipfw2 on 4-STABLE). The ipfw resolves name to
>*first* ip assigned to the name - but I expect to have *all*
>ip addresses in the rule. eg.
>...

the "name to IP" feature only aplies at rule load !
i.e. when, and only when, the ipfw rule is loaded the name is translated to 
IP...

look on `man ipfw` for "me" clause (me= my IP address)...



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Antonio Torres
antonio.torres at newspace.net.br

   




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