Re: firehol as a target for volatile
Hi Stephen,
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:33:38PM +0100, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Alexander Wirt said:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > firehol, a frontend for iptables, includes some a variable of reserved IPs.
> > These IPs are provided by the IANA [1] unfortunatly there ranges are not as
> > stable as I would wish, they change from time to time. As firehol can block
> > that comes from reserved networks it gets into trouble if these data is
> > outdated. I had some reports in the BTS (#357250) that reported real world
> > package loss due to that problem. As I don't think this should be targeted by
> > stable uploads volatile seems to be the right place for me. The change would
> > only be a oneliner (replace the old ranges with the new ones). If nobody has
> > objections I would provide provide an updated package to volatile.
>
> Actually, a simple one line change seems reasonably appropriate for a
> stable point release to me. Aba, zobel, what do you think?
mh, these IP ranges are in what we define "volatile data". :)
Greetings
Martin
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