Re: iptables 1.3.6 not using /etc/networks

[Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>]

* Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote, On 20/11/06 00:00:
> Laurence J. Lane wrote:
>> On 11/12/06, Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not sure offhand how we can satisfy both cases here, but I'd posit
>>> that more people use x.x.x/24 than use foonet/x notation.
>> I have another bug report saying it breaks stuff from /etc/hosts too.
>>
>> How about something like this? I assume valid IP characters are in the
>> range of 0-9 and a dot. This will skip pad_cidr() if any characters
>> outside of that range are encountered. Plain bad IP addresses are
>> apparently validated elsewhere. Of course, I could be wrong about all
>> of this.
> 
> Apparently /etc/host accepts entries composed of dots, e.g.
> 
> foo.machine     192.168.100.100
> 
> So this assumption can be OK as soon as nobody is using such notation.

I do, so do lots of web developers I know; it helps them test websites
under  the correct domain.

Does the patch you suggested depend on this not being the case?

Sam