Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:38:18 -0300
From:      Antonio Torres <antonio.torres@newspace.net.br>
To:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hostnames resolving problem
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.14.0.20030821203538.025c0440@mail.newspace.net.br>
In-Reply-To: <3F4530A0.8020704@fork.pl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 17:50 21/8/2003, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I encountered small problem when using DNS names in ipfw rules
>(I'm using ipfw2 on 4-STABLE). The ipfw resolves name to
>*first* ip assigned to the name - but I expect to have *all*
>ip addresses in the rule. eg.
>...

the "name to IP" feature only aplies at rule load !
i.e. when, and only when, the ipfw rule is loaded the name is translated to 
IP...

look on `man ipfw` for "me" clause (me= my IP address)...



[]s
Antonio Torres
antonio.torres@newspace.net.br

   




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6.0.0.14.0.20030821203538.025c0440>