On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 23:16 -0300, Adriano Frare wrote: > Dear Friends, > > When I execute below command > > iptables -A FORWARD -d chatenabled.mail.google.com -j DROP > > > I have received follow messages. > > iptables v1.2.11: host/network `chatenabled.mail.google.com' not found If we can presume that the man page for iptables is correct that it can filter using hostname, we can also presume that it must have some method for doing a DNS-like resolution process. Since dig of "chatenabled..." shows it exists and is resolvable, is your iptables set up to use your resolution facility? If early in the boot procedure, maybe resolution is not yet available? As a test on my fully-updated-box-stock workstation, I did the following. [wild-bill at wlmlfs08 ~]$ dig chatenabled.mail.google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> chatenabled.mail.google.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38992 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;chatenabled.mail.google.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: chatenabled.mail.google.com. 472028 IN CNAME b.googlemail.l.google.com. b.googlemail.l.google.com. 15 IN A 64.233.185.189 <snip the rest> So we know it exists. Then I did # iptables -A FORWARD -d chatenabled.mail.google.com -j DROP # iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere DROP all -- anywhere 64.233.185.189 So, on my WS it works. Conditions: I am fully up and running, private net w/local caching server and forwarding to ISP servers, DHCP assigned IPs, etc. Pretty much stock to the bone. Oh, gateway is IPCop, which also provides the DHCP and normal firewall services for my net. Have you tried doing the add after fully booted and being served? > > > > Thanks > > > Adriano Frare > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060708/3c379ec7/attachment-0005.sig>