Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:12:31 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bwoods2@uswest.net Subject: Re: IPFW...1 more question..... Message-ID: <XFMail.000316121231.wwoods@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003161146360.12778-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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So, I would need to ping each .com in my ipfw rules and put their xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24 in the rule? If this what I understand you saying? On 16-Mar-00 Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, William Woods wrote: > >> This firewall rule, >> >> ipfw add 001 deny log ip from aol.com/24 to alpha.cybcon.com >> >> am I correct in assuming that this will block ALL traffic from aol.com to >> alpha.cybcon.com and log it? > > Not exactly. ipfw has to resolve domain names to ip addresses in user > space, at the time the rules are added. aol.com resolves to > 205.188.160.121 and 205.188.146.23. More than likely this rule will block > the 205.188.160.0/24 netblock, and miss the rest of AOL. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net Date: 16-Mar-00 Time: 12:09:01l ---------------------------------- NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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