Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:28:32 -0400 From: Joseph Jacobson <jacobson@pobox.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No route for 127/8 to lo0 (?) Message-ID: <200004242328.TAA07013@home.my.domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:02:01 BST." <20000421200201.A34984@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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See RFC1122, section 3.2.1.3, available at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1122.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1122.html > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:57:40PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: [...] > > I thought that 127/8 was the "local net", and that packets sent to any of > > those addresses would go via the loopback interface. That seems to be > > how Linux and Windows 98 do things (the only systems I can check this on > > at the moment). Assuming that's the case, why does FreeBSD only add a > > a host route to 127.0.0.1, and not a network route for 127/8? Various > > other people have confirmed that they only have a 127.0.0.1 host route > > as well, so I don't believe this is a misconfiguration of my system. > > No one's actually been able to answer this, save a few comments that the > loopback interface is special-cased to do this in the code, and that the > code in question is quite old. [...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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