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costales / gufw

Linux Firewall
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IP address only? Why not computer name/device name? #56

Closed youngkzy closed 1 year ago

youngkzy commented 1 year ago

I appreciate the Firewall and ease of use configuration.

My home network is systems are all DHCP. I don't want to modify my router to manage static IP addresses. I was setting up a remote desktop connection through REMMINA and I had to address firewall settings on my Linux Mint Laptop. Yes, I have the latest version installed and Linux Mint is up-to-date. I am not usually into firewall settings unless to do something like this. I found that I need to put in the actual IP address of my Windows PC. I can certainly ping it by its router name.

For example a windows PC name = "DESKTOP-ABC123XYZ.fios-router.home" I can ping it by "DESKTOP-ABC123XYZ" as well.

You cannot even put in "LOCALHOST" to refer to the self-named. However you can inject the local IP Address of the Linux machine.

Error Bad destination address. Error Bad source address.

Am I missing something? I tried to find information in the HELP, but it's just a info pop-up.

Please help. Thanks.

costales commented 1 year ago

Hi, please fill a question for the project ufw in Launchpad. Best regards