[CentOS] IPTABLES don't solve name HOST - CENTOS 4.3

Ryan ryanag at zoominternet.net
Sat Jul 8 22:09:39 UTC 2006


On Saturday 08 July 2006 10:06 am, Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
> > iptables -A FORWARD -d chatenabled.mail.google.com -j DROP
>
> IPTABLES doesn't filter based on hostname.  You would need some special
> module (assuming it exists) and it for sure isn't part of RHEL/CentOS.
>

Are you sure about this?

I have had no problem creating rules by hostname, although I've only used the 
front ends shorewall and firestarter on CentOS.




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