Re: Dynamic IP address in a rule?

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В Пнд, 27/04/2009 в 10:08 +0300, Ivan Petrushev пишет:
> Yes, ofcourse it won't work in that way :)
> I can't think of a solution that does not include ruleset reloading
> after X time...

The better way is to insert rule when you have got your IP (on connect)
and remove it on disconnect.

> It would be best if you can bypass the changeable
> "address" part of the rules with something else - like in/out
> interface. It would work if your station doesn't have aliases and the
> rules are not targetting specific host if the machine is a router.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM,  <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > 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
> >> ruleis inserted/appended. If the DNS returns more than one IP per
> >> name, a number of rules is inserted with each IP returned.
> >
> > Yes, that's more or less what Jorge described. My point was that if the
> > Netfilter framework had to perform a DNS lookup for each (new?) packet
> > that it has to check, I think it would be quite slow (think about DNS
> > query timeouts, etc) and not so usable as it is now.
> >
> >
> > Grts,
> > Rob
> >
> >
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