On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Perhaps I'm being dim, but I can't see why it can't be handled
> identically. Why does it matter that the IP address under test is
> explicitly specified by the match_host statement, rather than coming
> from getpeername() or the command line's '-bh' option?
The point that bothers me is that in a host list in an ACL or router,
there are in effect two identifiers, the IP address and the name. Both
are implicit. The question the is: if a match_host condition is
implemented, do you allow the caller to specify an IP address, or a
name, or both? Clearly one can come up with some rules such as "specify
only the IP address, and if a name is required, it is looked up", but I
was never sure about what would be right, so I just ducked out of doing
it.
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