Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:10:11 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Subject: Re: ipfw question - hostname/address spec? Message-ID: <20011010001011.F387@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011009145144.C64668@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc%2Bfreebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:51:45PM -0400 References: <20011004071834.A2458@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20011004135129.E297@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011009005629.D589@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20011009035651.N350@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011009145144.C64668@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:51:45PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> On 10/09/01 03:56 AM, Crist J. Clark sat at the `puter and typed:
> > [snip]
> >
> > /etc/rc.firewall would be good.
>
> Ok, you asked for it . . .
[snip]
> > If DNS works fine once the system is up, but doesn't work when running
> > the rc.firewall script, it sure sounds like you are killing your own
> > lookups due to the rule ordering.
>
> It doesn't work at all. Not even via direct IP.
Hmmm?
> Thanks for your help. I'm sure to learn something useful in all this.
> Which is the point, I guess.
[snip]
I can't reproduce the problem and it does look like DNS lookups should
be working by the time the SMTP and NNTP rules are reached. I'm not
sure what is happening here. You could try adding some logging to see
what is going on in the ruleset. It also may be some other strange DNS
interaction.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
cjclark@jhu.edu
cjc@freebsd.org
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