Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:54:35 -0500 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Jason Canon <JCanon@comtechnologies.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat -r Message-ID: <19990421215436.049631E4C@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <71F888185DE0D01191CD00C0DFA9A3081C9E34@MX> References: <71F888185DE0D01191CD00C0DFA9A3081C9E34@MX>
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Looks to me like IANA and/or InterNIC decided to add reverse mappings for the RFC1918 addresses. e.g. dig -x 10.0.0.1 ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> -x ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; 1.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: 1.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. 1D IN PTR read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 10.in-addr.ARPA. 1D IN NS ns2.internic.net. 10.in-addr.ARPA. 1D IN NS blackhole.ISI.EDU. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns2.internic.net. 1D IN A 198.41.0.11 ;; Total query time: 290 msec Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org On 21 April 1999 at 17:31, Jason Canon <JCanon@comtechnologies.com> wrote: > Our FreeBSD server has been in operation for about a year and it just > runs like a charm. Every so often > I do "netstat -r" just to make sure that I'm still being the bandwidth > hog on our network. Today, however, > instead of the customary inverse-mapping that I get from the /etc/hosts > file I got a note on each listing saying: > > "read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net" followed by our Private IP > Address and Ethernet Address > > What could have changed to create this output? We have always been > using RFC 1918 addressing > along with NAT. > > Thanks, > Jason > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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