Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:45:19 +0100 (CET) From: Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de> To: "rene@canyon.demon.nl" <rene@canyon.demon.nl> Cc: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current, dial-on-demand, hang up the phone? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9902161044410.4771-100000@dominik.saargate.de> In-Reply-To: <fc.3b9aca00509e64ff3b9aca00ff649e50.ffb4a@saargate.de>
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, rene@canyon.demon.nl wrote: > The biggest problem that a filter will have is dns lookups, if you > block them, you effectively block auto dialing for anything (most > connections start by looking up a host and then connecting...). The > only strange effect that I observed is that if you change "deny" (in > the ipfw rule) to "unreach host", the connection will still be > initiated. I presume that the ICMP package that is send will go via > the interface and cause this "wake-up". Maybe it helps a bit when you set up a caching-only nameserver. -- Dominik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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