Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:26:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Adding a new feature to 2.2 series? Message-ID: <199706181926.PAA04006@pandora.hh.kew.com>
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If you're hacking the code, add a wish for the ipfw command line side, although not for 2.2.x ... Consider parsing the port and IP address fields for the contents of /etc/services, /etc/hosts and /etc/network. I find the requirement to use numerics to be extremely error prone. I presume this is currently done because NIS and DNS are not presumed to be available when ipfw is run and the stock gethostbyname, etc. would attempt to access these services. So think about it ... -ahd-
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