From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 27 15:22:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA08372 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 15:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA08365 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 15:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA01789; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 15:22:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 15:22:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dumb routing question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In trying to optimize some things, I recently ran a verbose traceroute and found the following at the start of it: ---- 1 199.190.67.1 (199.190.67.1) 36 bytes to 205.148.224.9 120.225 ms 36 bytes from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1: icmp type 3 (Dest Unreachable) code 3 4: x00470045 8: x000005f3 12: x00001140 16: x0100007f 20: x0100007f 24: xd0043500 28: x00003300 32: x00000000 Repeated for the first 2 hops (both thru my ISP). My setup is: Internet <-> FRAD <-----+--> Rigel.orionsys.com (205.148.224.9) 205.148.224.1 | +--> bbs.orionsys.com (205.148.224.2) My ISP maintains my nameserver, and 199.190.67.1 is the first hop toward the ISP... ---- from sysconfig network_interfaces="lo0 ix0" ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" ifconfig_ix0="inet 205.148.224.9 netmask 0xffffff00" static_routes="multicast loopback" route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}" route_loopback="${hostname} localhost" defaultrouter=205.148.224.1 namedflags="-b /etc/namedb/named.boot" gated=NO ---- from netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 205.148.224.1 UGSc 41 371 ix0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 547 lo0 205.148.224 link#2 UC 0 0 205.148.224.1 0:a0:eb:0:1a:6b UHLW 42 0 ix0 740 205.148.224.9 127.0.0.1 UGHS 0 0 lo0 224 link#2 UCS 0 0 ---- from ifconfig -a lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 ix0: flags=63 mtu 1500 inet 205.148.224.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 205.148.224.255 lo0: flags=8009 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552 tun0: flags=8010 mtu 1500 ---- What am I doing wrong? Everything works, but the odd unreachable loopback message has me confused (not an unusual state). Is this degrading performance? -Dave