Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:25:25 -0700 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat -r (fwd) Message-ID: <199904230125.SAA28802@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:59:31 CDT." <199904230059.TAA08580@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
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--==_Exmh_384379517P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Igor Roshchin wrote: > Check the traceroute I pasted below - that router 10.0.232.27 > is not on my internal network. (I have NO private IP addresses). > So, are you saying I need to have all 2^512 (18609625) in my > /etc/hosts file ???? No...it's just that you shouldn't ask Internet nameservers to resolve address-to-name lookups for private networks. HOWEVER, that said... > traceroute to www.home.net (24.0.30.175), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets ...you're seeing a rather unfortunate, pathological case. The 10/net addresses in this case are a part of @Home which, for some reason that completely eludes me, uses private addresses inside its backbone network. Although you can't route to intermediate hosts, you can route to endsystems inside the @Home network. I imagine there's a reason for this, but it violates the various RFCs that have already been cited. I noticed this ever since I got an @Home connection, but it's not clear to me who inside the organization would have enough of a clue to DTRT and fix it. Bruce. > PS. It would be nice to avoid receiving double e-mails, especially > those which are not a direct response to my e-mail ... PS. It would be nice if people would keep me CC-ed on any threads I'm a part of, because I use procmail to filter my mailing list mail into other folders. Mail addressed directly to me drops into my spool, and I'm much more likely to stay in a thread if its messages go *there*, rather than into a folder where I might miss them among many others. --==_Exmh_384379517P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNx/MBKjOOi0j7CY9AQGlvgP/aiwSaVMMrsZTddlxmTn8x5pJNPwADuhl UL2HyGkIc8cNoP76TBvaW7jfFHwFfsv7IHrLIB+7qx1wixEhkO4dcWtqVG2duPM3 yasG1psp9iBF4oauC1xsCMHrB8gvO72o3K1DHeb6SHvxw1W9+Yc2hDnQjEak2QOn 6Ev1hzPvHig= =JKD/ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_384379517P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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