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Antony Stone wrote:
| If www.abc.com resolves to more than one IP address, only one will get entered | into the rule if you specify the name (and you would need to use multiple | rules if you specify by IP), and therefore only some of the packets sent to | ww.abc.com would match the rule. |
I just tested and if you say use www.yahoo.com, which resolves to multiple entries, you get that many iptables rules generated for each unique IP that www.yahoo.com resolves to. I've been relying on this feature for a long time. :)
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