hostnames resolving problem

[Philip Reynolds]

Marcin Gryszkalis <mg at fork.pl> 33 lines of wisdom included:
> On 2003-08-23 05:11, Kelly Yancey wrote:
> >  The name resolution feature is already questionable: if the DNS mapping
> >changes, should the firewall rule somehow be magically updated?  I mean, 
> >you
> >*did* ask for packets to be allowed to smtp.o2.pl didn't you?
> I understand the point of view that it's questionable, but - as it *is*
> implemented, it's just inconsistent. Relation between hosts and ips
> is treated as 1-to-1 where it's 1-to-many.
> 
> I know I can just write
> 
> ip=`host smtp.o2.pl | cut -f4 -d' ' | paste -s -d, -`
> ${ipfw} add tcp from any to ${ip} setup
> 
> or something similar instead of changing ipfw code. But that's my just 
> opinion
>  - that command interface is inconsistent.

Perhaps where more than one host is returned, the user should
receive a warning?

Regards,
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