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Re: 2.0.36: DNS caching inside kernel with ipfwadm?

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, David L. Parsley (lkml account) wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 	The kernel doesn't know anything about DNS names; when you enter a
> rule, ipfwadm looks up the IP, and the IP number goes into the kernel
> tables.  You don't need to reboot, you can just flush your firewall rules
> and re-run the script that sets them up. 

While writing my proof that you were wrong and I was right, I realised that
I am being extremely stupid. I forgot to change the PTR record to the new
setup.

As usual, I'm the bug, not Linux :)

Paul

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