On mið, 2008-05-21 at 05:54 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > What i can't understand is why you want to avoid the use of the hosts > file in the first place. Having a zone that matches your targets is > the > most flexible way to manage traffic to and from those hosts.
Hi Paul, the reason is, that my configuration was not behaving as I expected and the documentation does not recommend using hosts. At least it does not recommend using the hosts file the way I am using it. Maybe if I configure by the book, the results will be as I expected. -- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
