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-rw-r--r--ip6tables.8.in10
-rw-r--r--iptables.8.in8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ip6tables.8.in b/ip6tables.8.in
index 66d8543c..56881331 100644
--- a/ip6tables.8.in
+++ b/ip6tables.8.in
@@ -240,10 +240,12 @@ option is omitted.
.TP
[\fB!\fP] \fB\-s\fP, \fB\-\-source\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP]
Source specification.
-\fIAddress\fP can be either a hostname (please note that specifying
-any name to be resolved with a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea),
-a network IPv6 address (with \fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IPv6 address.
-(the network name isn't supported now).
+\fIAddress\fP can be either be a hostname,
+a network IP address (with \fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IP address.
+Names will be resolved once only, before the rule is submitted to the kernel.
+Please note that specifying any name to be resolved with a remote query such as
+DNS is a really bad idea.
+(Resolving network names is not supported at this time.)
The \fImask\fP is a plain number,
specifying the number of 1's at the left side of the network mask.
A "!" argument before the address specification inverts the sense of
diff --git a/iptables.8.in b/iptables.8.in
index 928f46a9..d29deb2e 100644
--- a/iptables.8.in
+++ b/iptables.8.in
@@ -239,9 +239,11 @@ option is omitted.
.TP
[\fB!\fP] \fB\-s\fP, \fB\-\-source\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP][\fB,\fP\fI...\fP]
Source specification. \fIAddress\fP
-can be either a network name, a hostname (please note that specifying
-any name to be resolved with a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea),
-a network IP address (with \fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IP address.
+can be either a network name, a hostname, a network IP address (with
+\fB/\fP\fImask\fP), or a plain IP address. Hostnames will
+be resolved once only, before the rule is submitted to the kernel.
+Please note that specifying any name to be resolved with a remote query such as
+DNS is a really bad idea.
The \fImask\fP
can be either a network mask or a plain number,
specifying the number of 1's at the left side of the network mask.