From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 20 02:47:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA17876 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:47:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17869 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 02:47:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA00888 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:47:47 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:47:47 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: IP lookups Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG with so many people running ppp alias, i'd like to know if anyone DOES or DOESN'T have this problem. i'd like to know if i need to figure something out, or if it is a bug. i've had this problem for at least 1.5 years, and have never figured out a solution. i always wrote it off as a "bug" in the resolver. i have experienced some odd behavior relating to DNS & /etc/hosts resolving and remember many posts over the years relating to quirky behavior. > > > 2.2.7-RELEASE > > > > > > ppp aliased IP addresses = 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.12 > > > > > > BSD1 <-> BSD2 <-> Internet > > > (ppp) (ppp -alias) > > > (0.X) (192.168.0.0) > > > > > > BSD1 machine can: > > > > > > ping 192.168.0.0 > > > telnet 192.168.0.0 > > > ftp 192.168.0.0 > > > traceroute 192.168.0.0 > > > > > > BSD1 machine CAN'T > > > > > > nslookup 192.168.0.0 > > > lynx 192.168.0.0 > > > > > > why? all internet functions work for BSD1 > > > (telnet, FTP, http, ping, etc ...) > > BSD2 resolves 192.168.0.X just fine. > BSD1's nameserver forwards to 192.168.0.0 PS. someone mentioned that it is bad to use "X.X.X.0" as an IP, but i thought it was conventional to use that number for default gateways ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message