From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 16 12:55:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA18625 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 May 1995 12:55:44 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA18619 for ; Tue, 16 May 1995 12:55:42 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA08997; Tue, 16 May 1995 12:54:41 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505161954.MAA08997@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: "arp info overwritten" problem To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jc@irbs.com, graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199505161705.KAA21300@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 16, 95 10:05:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 639 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > BROADCAST.fu-berlin.de is a machine, it has an A record. > > A lot of nets have a record for their broadcast address, silly but then. > The reverse record is much more useful. It is not silly at all, this is to replace what was once done with /etc/networks files. You should be able to do things like: ifconfig de0 inet gndrsh.aac.dev.com broadcast bcast-aacnet-100mb-a.aac.dev.com and have things work. This is more import for network names than broadcast addresses :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD