On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Sean M. Alderman wrote:

> I may have just missed this in my once-over of the man page...but rules are
> parsed in order as they are in the file correct?...

Yes.

> so I could have a line like:
> 
> accept any 60 any
> 
> followed by:
> 
> ignore tcp tcp.dest=tcp.domain
> ignore tcp tcp.source=tcp.domain
> 
> And diald would except any packets and ignore DNS packets...

No! It's the *first* match that is used so you must put
the most specific rules first. A rule such as "accept any 60 any"
would normally be the last because any rules after that will
never be used.

                                Mike

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