On 9/5/10 11:15 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>> The 'to' option does not work from the firewall itself. As stated in the
>> release notes where the feature was introduced, the blacklist is still
>> applied on packets arriving on 'blacklist' interfaces.
>>   
> In other words this new blacklist format does not stop packets FROM my
> interface (even if the 'blacklist' option is used) to "blacklisted"
> addresses, is that right? If so, then I need to restore my old DROP
> statements I've had in the rules file and remove half of the statements
> currently in my blacklist file.
> 

I guess I'm baffled as to why a firewall needs to have an outgoing
blacklist.

-Tom
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