Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 16:05:19 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@Physics.usyd.edu.au> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, mango@communique.net, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: loopback and multicast messed up on /etc/sysconfig ? Message-ID: <199512140505.QAA27518@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951213222034.14378A-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Dec 13, 95 10:23:05 pm
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>On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, J Wunsch wrote:
>
>> As Raul Zighelboim wrote:
>> >
>> > # route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}"
>> > # route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
>> >
>> > If I uncomment this line in sysconfig, the system will not boot.
>> > (attaching a monitor/keyboard to the pc will allowed me to continue the
>> > boot process by typing <ctrl>-C, but no multicast nor loopback oute will
>> > exist.
>>
>> Are you using /etc/resolv.conf? Does your nameserver respond to the
>> reverse query for 224.0.0.0? Did you wait 45 seconds for the DNS
>> request timing out?
>>
>
>I've been silently a victim of this for a long time. I have a private, 2
>machine network, with one machine doing a nameserver, the other
>resolver. Could you suggest a line for the nameserver that would
>eliminate this? I'd really appreciate it.
>
>I _never_ realized it might be a multicast thing ....
I've seen this too. I added something equivalent to
localhost.rev for multicast.
In named.boot I have:
primary 0.0.224.IN-ADDR.ARPA multicast.rev
and multicast.rev has the following in addition to the SOA, and NS
records:
0 IN PTR multicast.<mydomain>.
I haven't had any problems since doing this.
David
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