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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 1996 23:39:03 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Cc:        alex@freefall.freebsd.org (Alex Nash), CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8
Message-ID:  <199609150539.XAA19574@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609150140.BAA00253@veda.is>
References:  <199609150008.RAA19703@freefall.freebsd.org> <199609150140.BAA00253@veda.is>

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> >   Modified:    sbin/ipfw  ipfw.8
> >   Log:
> >   Note that -N is only effective when ipfw is displaying chain entries.
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.23      +1 -1      src/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
> > 
> 
> This is not true. -N will allow hostnames to be used instead of IP numbers
> for other commands, although this has not yet been documented in the manpage.

You can use hostnames w/out -N.  What Alex says above is true, the
hostname vs. IP is irrelevant.  (Hint, *go* read the source again,
do_resol is only used when printing out information, not when inputting
it.)


Nate



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