On 12/10/05, Jonathan M. Prigot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A number of months ago, we were hit by a virus that caused our machines to > open numerous popups to numerous adware sites. In an effort to control that > then and forever (ha!), we placed the addresses of the adware sites into a > table and told pf to block access to them. When I rebooted our firewall > recently, pf did not start due to one of the addresses being unresolvable. > This caused all connections to be blocked. Has this been fixed in later > releases of OBSD, or has anyone developed a work around for this? > > # pfctl -Tload -f pf.conf > no IP address found for dsl-80-46-67-1.access.xxxx.com > pf.conf:17: file "/etc/blocked-sites" contains bad data > pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded >
yes it is one problem. But for domain names that are not under your control please use corresponding IP address. it will save much trouble. --Siju
