From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 19 05:24:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA21491 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 May 1995 05:24:13 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA21485 for ; Fri, 19 May 1995 05:24:02 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA03294; Fri, 19 May 1995 20:23:50 +0800 Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 20:23:50 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: alias ( secondary IP ) for Ethernet Ifaces in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199505171300.OAA07193@isl.cf.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 May 1995, Paul Richards wrote: > > Wait until after 2.0.5, I'm going to need this functionality for > work (setting up a web site that supports virtual domains) and after > playing around with it I think ifconfig needs to be changed to handle > it a lot better. The current implementation isn't robust enough. What do you mean by that? I've noticed in my testing that on occasion, trying to connect to an alias address from a remote Lynx client would result in a "Network error" (connection closed by peer, or whatever Lynx calls it). However, those appear to be related to errors in my httpd.conf setup and not necessarily ifconfig. I just remembered something... a host with multiple aliases cannot reach itself via those additional addresses. Is this a bug? I can ping/telnet to any of the aliases from a different machine, but not from the same machine to itself (via an alias). -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org