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From: Steven Jan Springl <steven@springl.ukfsn.org>
Subject: Re: Possible arptables bug.
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:07:48 +0000
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On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 16:30:16 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:50:48AM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:32:53AM +0000, Steven Jan Springl wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > arptables-save tries to convert any IP addresses to DNS names.
> > > Is this the expected behaviour?
> > > 
> > > If it is the expected behaviour, is there any way that it can be
> > > disabled as arptables-save hangs until the DNS lookup times out if DNS
> > > is not available?
> > 
> > Like iptables, use -n together with -L.
> 
> Sorry, I misread your email. You were talking about arptables-save,
> not arptables itself.
> 
> commit 0d0d618038aa1137d6f373db8ab201f03234959f
> Author: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
> Date:   Sun Oct 10 17:30:38 2010 +0000
> 
>     - use -n so that IP addresses are resolved (similar to iptables'
>       behaviour)
> 
> It seems that change is already in the git tree.
> 
> Upgrade to current git snapshot or wait for that release that Bart
> promised.

Pablo

Thanks for the update.

Steven.