Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 18:35:05 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@venus.os.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why must I ifconfig my virtual hosts twice? Message-ID: <699.831404105@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 1996 11:33:26 EDT." <9605061533.AA27662@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Garrett Wollman wrote in message ID <9605061533.AA27662@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>: > Now, what happens when you run a traceroute to an alias address? Your > machine eventually receives the packet, and sends back a port > unreachable message, but because it appears to come from a different > address than the one traceroute was expecting, traceroute assumes that > it got an intermediate hop and not the final destination. (If you had > a multi-homed host with all the addresses listed in the A record, > traceroute would know to check them all.) So why did it work on my test with a -current box, but not on -stable? Has a fix been applied to make the kernel reply from the alias address? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?699.831404105>