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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