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Date:      Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:47:06 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        jhell <jhell@dataix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, Anderson Eduardo <listas@secover.com.br>
Subject:   Re: Using ipfw table names instead of numbers.
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I'd argue that "DNS" clue pushes the firewall out from a packet
inspection thing and into a user-space application inspection thing.

DNS entries in filter rules doesn't work as well in all situations as
you'd like. :)


Adrian
(who has done this, and it doesn't quite work right in all situations
thanks to split-horizon, per-user, geo-location, server-balancing
DNS..)

On 6 September 2010 08:31, jhell <jhell@dataix.net> wrote:
> On 09/05/2010 11:53, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> whereas one might want a more dynamic behaviour (e.g. refresh
>> whenever the DNS response expires).
>
> Lord that would be nice! if only PF had this ;)
>
> --
>
> =A0jhell,v
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