Re: Dynamic IP address in a rule?

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> If iptables would have to perform a DNS lookup everytime a packet
> passes, I think it would be terribly slow and probably not usable for
> packetfiltering.
Actually the DNS lookup is performed only once - in the time the rule
is inserted/appended. If the DNS returns more than one IP per name, a
number of rules is inserted with each IP returned.
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