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  Exploring the Mac OS X Firewall
Subject:   Hostname in rules?
Date:   2005-03-17 01:22:33
From:   peterhickman
Response to: Hostname in rules?

While you can have rules like


allow tcp from fred.house.domain.edu to any 22 in


I'm not sure that you could use a * instead of the fred. You would probably have to iterate all possible values for *. The only way to find out is to try it.


Do you have the netmask for *.house.domain.edu, you could use that.


allow tcp from xxx.xxx.0.0/24 to any 22 in


Is there another way of approaching this, could you just only allow the various private address ranges in and exclude the rest. Assuming that the *.house.domain.edu are all private.

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