Re: IP Chains

Matt Kemner (kemner@live.networx.net.au)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:51:41 +0800 (WST)


On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 jens@pinguin.conetix.de wrote:

jens> REJECT udp opt ------ tos 0xFF 0x00 via ippp0
jens> 192.168.1.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0/0 137:139 -> *

jens> But an "ipchains -L" now always triggers a connection??! What for? I have
jens> all local IP adresses in /etc/hosts ...

Have you got 192.168.1.0 in /etc/hosts as well?
ipchains will try to resolve that to a hostname.
Also, you may want to run a small caching nameserver on your local network
so it will cache common queries such as these.

- Matt Kemner
System Administrator
Networx Internet
Western Australia
++61 8 9345 3377

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