From: <lists@sterenborg.info>
To: 'Netfilter' <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Dynamic IP address in a rule?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:56:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000a01c9c705$5c4c2db0$14e48910$@info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d39744a20904262346p41c1b5fcy2f754a9263d09df3@mail.gmail.com>
> > If iptables would have to perform a DNS lookup everytime a packet
> > passes, I think it would be terribly slow and probably not usable
> > for packetfiltering.
>
> Actually the DNS lookup is performed only once - in the time the
> ruleis inserted/appended. If the DNS returns more than one IP per
> name, a number of rules is inserted with each IP returned.
Yes, that's more or less what Jorge described. My point was that if the
Netfilter framework had to perform a DNS lookup for each (new?) packet
that it has to check, I think it would be quite slow (think about DNS
query timeouts, etc) and not so usable as it is now.
Grts,
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-27 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-25 12:12 Dynamic IP address in a rule? Paddie O'Brien
2009-04-26 19:43 ` Jorge Bastos
2009-04-26 22:38 ` Bruno Moreira Guedes
2009-04-27 8:30 ` Jorge Bastos
2009-04-27 8:52 ` Daniel Huhardeaux
2009-04-27 8:56 ` Jorge Bastos
2009-04-27 11:48 ` Pascal Hambourg
2009-04-27 6:41 ` lists
2009-04-27 6:46 ` Ivan Petrushev
2009-04-27 6:56 ` lists [this message]
2009-04-27 7:08 ` Ivan Petrushev
2009-04-27 13:23 ` Bruno Moreira Guedes
2009-04-27 11:57 ` Pascal Hambourg
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