Good day!
I just wanted to check with the list that, in fact, there is no way to
have an IP address change during Shorewall's "run time".
My "params" file currently contains something like this:
DESKTOP=`dig +short desktop.mynetgear.com`
(I know that Tom discourages using domain names in the Shorewall files.
But for the above to work, I must use NETGEAR's name. I can't use a
numeric address, because I don't know what it might be!)
Here's what I found in the ML archives:
* On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:11, niels at wxn.nl wrote:
> But when the IP adress of this dynamic hostname updates to a
> new address it doesn't work anymore the only way to let it work
> with an updated hostname seems to be a "shorewall restart"
>
> Is there any solution to let shorewall update this without
> having to restart the firewall?
>
No. See http://shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#dnsnames
-Tom
I followed the above link. At first I thought that maybe Shorewall
"address variables" might "do the trick", but I don't
think so ...
Again, I don't think I can do this with Shorewall based on my
"research". But before I give up, I thought I'd check with other
Shorewall users.
As always, thanks to Tom for a great system!
--
Prof Kenneth H Jacker (ret) khj@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC 28608 USA
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