From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 12:17:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA02100 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 12:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02090 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 12:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id SAA00701 ; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:35:05 +0100 (BST) To: Garrett Wollman cc: Craig Shrimpton , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Why must I ifconfig my virtual hosts twice? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 1996 11:33:26 EDT." <9605061533.AA27662@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 18:35:05 +0100 Message-ID: <699.831404105@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.