From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] doc: name resolution clarification
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:07:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259075255-25781-4-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259075255-25781-1-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de>
Sometimes there are users who wonder about when name resolutions/DNS
queries are done, so let's add that for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
---
ip6tables.8.in | 10 ++++++----
iptables.8.in | 8 +++++---
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ip6tables.8.in b/ip6tables.8.in
index 66d8543..5688133 100644
--- a/ip6tables.8.in
+++ b/ip6tables.8.in
@@ -240,10 +240,12 @@ option is omitted.
.TP
[\fB!\fP] \fB\-s\fP, \fB\-\-source\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP]
Source specification.
-\fIAddress\fP can be either a hostname (please note that specifying
-any name to be resolved with a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea),
-a network IPv6 address (with \fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IPv6 address.
-(the network name isn't supported now).
+\fIAddress\fP can be either be a hostname,
+a network IP address (with \fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IP address.
+Names will be resolved once only, before the rule is submitted to the kernel.
+Please note that specifying any name to be resolved with a remote query such as
+DNS is a really bad idea.
+(Resolving network names is not supported at this time.)
The \fImask\fP is a plain number,
specifying the number of 1's at the left side of the network mask.
A "!" argument before the address specification inverts the sense of
diff --git a/iptables.8.in b/iptables.8.in
index 928f46a..d29deb2 100644
--- a/iptables.8.in
+++ b/iptables.8.in
@@ -239,9 +239,11 @@ option is omitted.
.TP
[\fB!\fP] \fB\-s\fP, \fB\-\-source\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP][\fB,\fP\fI...\fP]
Source specification. \fIAddress\fP
-can be either a network name, a hostname (please note that specifying
-any name to be resolved with a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea),
-a network IP address (with \fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IP address.
+can be either a network name, a hostname, a network IP address (with
+\fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IP address. Hostnames will
+be resolved once only, before the rule is submitted to the kernel.
+Please note that specifying any name to be resolved with a remote query such as
+DNS is a really bad idea.
The \fImask\fP
can be either a network mask or a plain number,
specifying the number of 1's at the left side of the network mask.
--
1.6.5.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-24 15:07 next iptables release Jan Engelhardt
2009-11-24 15:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] iptables: take masks into consideration for replace command Jan Engelhardt
2009-11-24 15:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc: explain experienced --hitcount limit Jan Engelhardt
2009-11-24 15:07 ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2009-11-24 15:13 ` next iptables release Patrick McHardy
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