From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 11:29:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A02637B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-227-236.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [207.173.227.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FB543E31 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:29:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from TAGALONG (unknown [165.107.42.110]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id EDEC5EE753; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <009301c22dbf$dd7570e0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Cc: Subject: Fw: IPFW Syntax Question Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:29:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack L. Stone" To: "Drew Tomlinson" Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 9:33 AM > At 08:29 AM 7.17.2002 -0700, you wrote: > >What is the correct syntax to get ipfw to load rules from a file? The > >man page indicates that it's simply: > > > >ipfw /path/filename > > > >However when I try, I get this error: > > > >ipfw: bad arguments, for usage summary ``ipfw'' > > > >What am I missing? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Drew > > > > ...what's this...??? You ask a question, but block at the same > time...???? > "Connection refused by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net" It was a stroke of bad luck. My DSL modem rebooted and when it came back up, it had a different IP address. I use ZoneEdit for DNS services and have a cron job that updates my address every hour. So my DNS entry wasn't correct for about 50 minutes and you were being refused by whatever system had my old address. One of these days I'll write a better script so I can update my address when it changes instead of just doing it every hour whether or not it is needed. Thanks for the answer. You are correct. Take care, Drew P.S. I'm sending this to the list as I got the following response when sending directly to you. : host mail.sage-one.net[65.71.135.137] said: 550 5.0.0 ... Access denied To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message