From owner-cvs-share Sat Sep 14 16:55:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-share Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18987 for cvs-share-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shogun.tdktca.com ([206.26.1.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18962; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shogun.tdktca.com (daemon@localhost) by shogun.tdktca.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id SAA15390; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from fa.tdktca.com (bsd.fa.tdktca.com [163.49.131.129]) by shogun.tdktca.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id SAA15383; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from alex@localhost) by fa.tdktca.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id SAA28876; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:59:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:59:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Nash To: Adam David cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook firewalls.sgml In-Reply-To: <199609141903.TAA10011@veda.is> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Adam David wrote: > > Log: > > Revert the description of -N to its original form. It was right the > > first time. > > then why does the manpage point out that service names are not accepted as > valid port specifications, and why does the implementation explicitly reject > any attempt to specify a service by name instead of by number? Because they're not, -N only affects the display of the ipfw chain. This is not clear from the man page, but given two conflicting pieces of documentation, it's probably a wise idea to check the source than to randomly choose which is right. Your first tip off that something was wrong should have been when you made these two changes (to fix something that was "clearly wrong"): -