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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - names must be strings"
   href="https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283">1283</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>names must be strings
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>nftables
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>x86_64
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P5
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>nft
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>pablo@netfilter.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>koetter@luis.uni-hannover.de
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        <pre>With ipset it was possible to use : in set names, nft does not allow ":" in
names and does not accept quoted_strings as set names.
On the other hand {addr,time,dec,hex}string and ip6addr_rfc2732 are accepted as
set name.
So you can have a set named ::1, but you can't have a set named
"blocked:host:ip" and "blocked:host:ip6".

In case : is not acceptable in set names for syntax reasons, I'd be fine with
using quoted strings for non-alphanumeric set names.

Seems like this issue applies to everything using identifier (STRING as
acceptable type), including tables chains sets flowtables objects.


nft -v
nftables v0.9.0 (Fearless Fosdick)

Linux p0 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.18.6-1~bpo9+1 (2018-09-13) x86_64
GNU/Linux</pre>
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