Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:43:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: "FreeBSD Current Users' list" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: IPFW changes Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960831074248.9954A-100000@Venus.mcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199608310949.LAA00327@keltia.freenix.fr>
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> Can anyone tell me what changed in IPFW between Aug, 18th and now ? Nothing. > I just rebooted after "make world" and ipfw rejected one the following > rules (without telling me the one but I know it is the first one): > > [...] > > 201 [11:45] root@keltia:~# ipfw add deny all from 127.0.0.0/8 to 0/0 via ppp0 > ipfw: ERROR - ip number > > It seems that neither "all" nor "ip" is recognized after the "deny"... ipfw is complaining that it can't resolve the address '0' which is being caused by the newly merged bind-4.9.4-P1 resolver (merged in 3 days ago). For the time being, use the "any" keyword instead of "0/0". Now the question is: Is it legal to call the resolver with an address of 0? I thought that the default action in such cases is to append ".0"'s to the end of the address until you had a 32-bit address. Alex
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