General Questions

Are there any plans to have the Walled Garden (Allowed IP address section of Captive Portal), to accept domain names?

Reason I ask, is I want to accept credit cards through a particular authorization service called Wireless Orbit.   It's a really neat authorization service...and very cost effective, if you want to accept credit cards.  I only learned about it recently.

Wireless Orbit works much easier with Domain names, as opposed to putting in single IP addresses in the Allowed IP address section, since  Domain names are more constant, as opposed to IP addresses that can easily change for some domain names.

More specifically, I wanted to use the IP addresses for www.paypal.com and www.paypalobjects.com.  Paypal uses (and sometimes changes) the IP addresses to their domain names, but they keep the IP address within an IP block.  Because of that, I can have problems with just a single Paypal IP address in the Allowed IP address section.  So since Paypal varies their IP addresses slightly, within an IP block, I figured I'd try to use an IP block, in the Allowed IP address section (since presently m0n0 won't take domain names).

So I tried to include a whole IP address block (in the Allowed IP address section), where I wanted to use a CIDR number (such as 216.113.116.0/19).  But m0n0 won't accept the CIDR number in the Allowed IP address section either.  Or am I doing something wrong?

I'm hoping a new firmware update will have m0n0wall accept domain names in the Allowed IP address section...or at least an IP block?

Another idea I considered is:
Might I be able to use the Alias host (built into the Firewall section), to work in the Allowed IP address section?  That is, can I can use a "host" name for the Allowed IP address, where it is defined in the Firewall Alias section?  That would be nice, since I believe the Alias will allow for an IP block.

Thanks for any help in this area.

 

I would really also like to see the ability to add in dns names rather that IP. I have the same issue with payment services changing their IP every five minutes.

Is this likely to get on the roadmap? How difficuilt is it to implement into m0n0. Anyone know if pfsense might support this?

Any news on this?

I would also like to see a wall garden, or the ability to use the firewall aliases rather then an IP Address.