Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:44:02 -0400 From: Jason Canon <jcanon@comtechnologies.com> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat -r (fwd) Message-ID: <37207922.870B0EE0@comtechnologies.com> References: <199904230125.SAA28802@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>
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Last time I spoke with him via email Milo Medin was VP of engineering for @home. He is an incredibly good Internet Architect and was acknowledged for his contributions to Internet RFC 1918. I have forwarded a copy of this thread to (1) learn if Milo is still there and (2) obtain an answer from @home. Thanks, Jason "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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