Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:42:16 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolver issues Message-ID: <20001206131322.DA8CB37B400@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 5 Dec 00 at 12:56, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> 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. Something told me to keep my yap shut... but noooo! I've been reading a couple of books (the suckers must out-of-date!) trying to learn about creating subnets from a single IP address. Of course the matter of netmasks and subnet-masks is pivotal to the readings. I thought I had the stuff aced ;( >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. Would you translate the above to the old way, so that I can see the logic. I read it as: address: 127.0.0.1 use 32 bits for the netmask address: 128.1.0.0 use 22 bits for the netmask (11111111 11111111 11111100 00000000) or 0xfffffc00 >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.) I've broken & trained quite a few horses in my lifetime, and *never* injured or whipped a one. They've put a hurting to me though on several occasions ;,) Forget horse-whip, thanks for not flaming my butt! -duke Calgary,Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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