On 9/5/10 11:43 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>> You can't just read what you want to read and ignore the rest. The man
>> page goes on to say:
>>
>> Note: Blacklisting is still restricted to traffic arriving on an
>> interface that has the ´blacklist´ option set. So to block traffic from
>> your local network to an internet host, you must specify blacklist on
>> your internal interface in shorewall-interfaces[1] (5).
>>
>> You should not expect to see a reference to 'blacklist' in your fw2net
>> chain since such traffic could not possibly have arrived on an interface
>> that has the 'blacklist' option set.
>>   
> OK, simple question then (as we screwed away from the SECMARK business, 
> which is what this thread was supposed to be discussing) - provided I 
> use the statements you know about in my blacklist file would that block 
> traffic originating FROM my machine to these blacklisted addresses? Yes 
> or No?

No -- nor was it intended to.

-Tom
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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________

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