On 9/5/10 11:04 AM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 9/5/10 10:58 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a patch that allows '-'.
>>>   
>> Thanks for that, though I have just replaced all occurrences of "-" with
>> "_", then manually loaded the init file and executed shorewall - it was
>> OK this time and without errors, though I am baffled by something else -
>> I expected to see the "blacklst" chain to appear in my fw2net so that it
>> blocks "blacklisted" packets FROM my machine, but my fw2net is clear of
>> such thing. There is no reference to blacklst there!
>>
>> The blacklst chain itself contains the "src" and "dst" match-set
>> statements as expected, but how are my packets FROM my FW to the
>> "blacklisted" addresses banned? Or are they?! Or is it that I am missing
>> something with the new format?
>>
> 
> The 'to' option does not work from the firewall itself. As stated in the
> release notes where the feature was introduced, the blacklist is still
> applied on packets arriving on 'blacklist' interfaces.

The shorewall-blacklist man page also makes this point.

-Tom
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