Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 12:56:22 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: 01031149@3web.net Cc: Alexander Anderson <a.anderson@utoronto.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolver issues Message-ID: <200012052056.eB5KuMJ24595@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Dec 2000 20:04:32 MST." <20001205050624.BE13237B400@hub.freebsd.org>
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> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:04:32 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > On 4 Dec 00 at 16:51, Alexander Anderson wrote: > Hi... > > >On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:17:41 PM or thereabouts, Crist J . Clark > >wrote: > > > >> > $ ifconfig tun0 | grep "inet " > >> > inet 64.229.84.85 --> 64.229.84.1 netmask 0xffffff00 > >> ^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Well that doesn't look right. > > > >Hmm, what should it be? I'll try to experiment with my network settings > >then. And here's my ``ppp.conf'' by the way; does anything look strange > >here? > > I'm just a dumb newbie, so I might be totally wrong, but 64.229.84.85 > looks an awful like a Class A address. If it is, the netmask s/b 255.0.0.0 > or 0xff000000. Somebody horse-whip me if I'm out-to-lunch here.... There are no classfull addresses any more. 64 is being handed out in the same chunks that other addresses have been handed out. Classless addressing has been the norm in the Internet backbone for about 5 years. That said, I don't know if 0xffffff00 is the correct netmask, but I do know that 0xff000000 is not correct. I don't see any quick elimination of the "Class" references people use. Even Cisco routers still tacitly recognize classfull nets by only showing the prefix length when it does not match the traditional classfull mask for that address. (Juniper gets it right!) The proper way to specify a network is prefix/length. E.g. 127.0.0.1/32, 128.1.0.0/22, 64.229.84.1.0/23. But I think I'll pass on the horse-whipping. (Are you the whip or is the horse? Either way it sound like animal cruelty.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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