From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 25 12:53:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA09006 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wiley.csusb.edu (wiley.csusb.edu [139.182.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA09001 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wwong@localhost) by wiley.csusb.edu (8.8.5/8.6.11) id MAA12424; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:51:44 -0700 (PDT) From: William Wong Message-Id: <199709251951.MAA12424@wiley.csusb.edu> Subject: Re: About routed To: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dan Busarow" at Sep 25, 97 10:08:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, William Wong wrote: > > I came across this recently and was wondering what it might be. Some > > machines have this message and some don't even though the systems are > > configured pretty much the same. Could somebody enlighten me on this? > > > > > > Sep 23 17:36:41 coyote2 routed[53]: sendto(ep0, 224.0.0.2): No route to host > > That's a multicast address. So the machines seeing this message > don't have a static route entered for multicast addresses. > > See route_multicast in /etc/sysconfig or rc.conf > > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 > DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 > > So why is it that one machine would see this address and the other one won't even though both machines are on the same segment of the network? Does this mean that one machine is being specifically targeted and sent that particular address? I hope the above sentences make sense to ask. :) Both machines are running freebsd-stable and mrouted is not enabled in rc.conf for both machines. -- William T. Wong Phone: (909) 880-7281 email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu