From: "Marcin Mirosław" <marcin@mejor.pl>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -j DNAT doesn't accept nonnumerical port
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:49:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5B5297.5070400@mejor.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1108260952070.6835@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>
W dniu 26.08.2011 09:54, Jan Engelhardt pisze:
> At least it is not a regression.
>
> DNAT does not accept names currently, and I can guess this is because
> of:
>
> Port names can contain pretty much any character except \0, so there is
> no way for DNAT, without symmetric delimiters like '[' and ']' for
> example, to know from the user specifying "smtp-imap" whether s/he means
> the single (fictional) port "smtp-imap", or the range 25--143.
This is good reason :) However, it's a little misleading.
Thank you for answer.
Regards,
Marcin.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-25 14:31 -j DNAT doesn't accept nonnumerical port Marcin Mirosław
2011-08-26 7:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-08-29 8:49 ` Marcin Mirosław [this message]
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