iptables question

[Dan Ritter]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:13:01PM -0700, Dave Peters wrote:
> Is there anyway to use iptables blocking domain name not IP address?
> 
> Example to block hotmail.com.
> 
> I tried this iptables -A FORWARD -d hotmail.com -j REJECT and it won't work.

Right. You need to use a DNS lookup utility (say, dig) to turn
domain names into lists of IPs. 

If you're doing a lot of this, you may want to create new chains
per service to maintain performance, i.e.

iptables -N ssh
iptables -N smtp
iptables -N web

iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 22 -j ssh
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 25 -j smtp
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 587 -j smtp
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -j web
iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 443 -j web

as a presort, then do the more complex manipulations in those
chains. 

-dsr-

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