Hey all. Trying to block some stuff with advanced filtering in Verizon's actiontec router when I stumbled upon the part where you enter a source and destination IP. Are they reversed or something?
For instance, let's say I want to block outgoing traffic to yahoo.com as a test. In "Output Rule Sets", I add yahoo.com as a destination host, my local ip, 192.168.1.8, in source, and make the rule drop all packets. This, apparently, doesn't work. What I have to do instead is put yahoo.com in source and 192.168.1.8 in destination and then it works.
Doesn't this seem counter-intuitive? The outgoing packet travels from 192.168.1.8 (source) to yahoo.com (destination). So why does only the reverse work? What am I missing here?
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