Marty wrote:
>
> i think the question relates more to this:
>
> "does ipchains store hosts to allow or deny by name or ip?"
>
> his firewall works, he just wants to know whether DHCP will make his life
> hell as machines keep their name but change ip (or vice versa, i can't
> remember which way he said his LAN and W2K work)
>
> for what it is worth, the how to does not mention this point, it may be a
> case of reading the source...
If I were to hazard a guess... I would say that ipchains stores ip
addresses.
I haven't looked at the code... but can you imagine your router doing a
DNS lookup for every packet it receives?
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