Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:11:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: admin@gccomm.net (Jeff Ehrenkrantz) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Domain Aliasing Message-ID: <199904240011.UAA20013@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <005501be8dbf$ee0aaea0$3142f5cf@whyy.org> from Jeff Ehrenkrantz at "Apr 23, 99 03:31:17 pm"
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Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote, > Hi All, I have been going in circles for a while on this one > > I currently have a box on the net xxx.8.140.95 netmask 0xffffff00 > using a border router of xxx.8.140.1 > the router is not under my control. > > i have been asked to renumber to xxx.8.237.221 soo > i retarted with an alias entry on the new interface in rc.conf netmask of 0xffffffff > i dns servers on the system so willhave to use both interfaces untill the dns stuff gets squared away. > > i can ping to the ...221 alias ok > but the outside world doesn't see it. the upstream provider says i should be able to. > > as is often the case the box is 2 hours away and remotly admin'd. > do i need to change the netmask of the .95 interface to include the .221 during the transition? You didn't really give us enough details to tell you exactly what you need to do. What modifications to the local net has the provider done? Could you send us your 'netstat -rn' (routing table) output? I've been reconfiguring our network at my job as we move from a class C subnet broken into a bunch of 27 bit subnets to different class C address all on a single LAN, so I have been thinking about aliasing alot lately. :) -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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