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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> 

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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
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Gary Palmer                                            FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.



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