Sorry to be posting a followup to my own question, but I solved this. I was using ipmasq to set up rules which needed to resolve external domain names before actually allowing external traffic... A bit stupid, but there it is.
Putting my rules in post-processing rules files: /etc/ipmasq/P30internal.rul /etc/immasq/P90external.rul which are executed after the internal and external input files in which I initially put them: /etc/ipmasq/I30internal.rul /etc/ipmasq/I90external.rul solved it. > I'm running Debian GNU-linux 2.2r3 (potato) and trying to set up firewall > rules with sources and destinations specified as domain names rather than > IP addresses. > > The problem is that ipchains returns an error: > > /sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found > Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or '/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information. > > The host this is running on can resolve the domain names OK. > > Anyone know what could be wrong? > > Thanks and best regards, > George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus
