From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 11:00:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5641065673 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 11:00:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [195.170.0.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FBD8FC15 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 11:00:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from joshua.freebsdgr.org (athedsl-4374375.home.otenet.gr [79.130.47.87]) (authenticated bits=0) by rosebud.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m4GB0759032370; Fri, 16 May 2008 14:00:07 +0300 Message-ID: <482D6937.10906@otenet.gr> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:00:07 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080324) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <482D54B3.3060306@otenet.gr> <200805161314.22978.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <20080516125422.Q19201@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080516125422.Q19201@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nikos Vassiliadis Subject: Re: Routing to internet addresses ending with 255 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:00:09 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> I have two home servers, on different locations, on two ADSL lines >>> using >>> dynamic DNS. One is running Debian, the other FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. >>> >>> I usually ssh from one to the other. Today, the debian server had a >>> public (internet) IP ending in 255. The FreeBSD 7.0 system refused to >>> communicate with it. Another 6.3 system had no problem. The 6.3 and 7.0 > > doesn't your 7.0 system has same first 3 bytes of IP, and badly set > netmask to /24 instead of narrower? > > i don't think it's freebsd version dependent, unless developers made a > bug. > > all these systems are behind ADSL routers and use NAT. Their internal addresses are in the 192.168.0.X range. I could easily consider this a problem of the (cheap) ADSL routers, but 6 and 7 use the same model (OTOH, there may be different firmware versions).