From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 22 13:13:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12FC153AB for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:13:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:10:47 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Jason Canon" Cc: "Igor Roshchin" , Subject: RE: netstat -r Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:10:47 -0700 Message-ID: <000301be8cfc$35aab620$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <371F806E.57FABC85@comtechnologies.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It was working by pure luck -- the IPs happened to not resolve. There are no such guarantees. The configuration was always broken. It was always trying to do something it shouldn't do -- namely resolve private IPs on the global Internet. The fix is to make all nameservers used by machines in private IP space able to resolve those private IPs correctly. DS > Ordinarily I would agree with you completely but what Igor and I are both > saying is that something external to our environments (e.g., IANA) appears > to have been the source. My /etc/hosts file contains resolution > for all private > IPs in use on the LAN. This has been working fine for almost 1 year but > during the past 24 hours or so the server ignored the hosts file > and printed > an IANA resolution instead. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message