Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 1996 06:29:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        alex@freefall.freebsd.org, 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:  <199609150629.GAA05091@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <199609150539.XAA19574@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Sep 14, 96 11:39:03 pm"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > >   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
> 

Yes you are right, I found what I expected... which was wrong.

Somehow I managed to typo the command 5 times while starting with 'ipfw -N add'
and didn't slip up once when trying it without the -N.

Sorry for the unnecessary noise.

I'll see if it makes better sense in the morning.

Adam



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199609150629.GAA05091>