From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 16:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07964 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07868 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:12:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06268; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:11:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: groggy@iname.com cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: IP lookups In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 groggy@iname.com wrote: > > with so many people running ppp alias, > i'd like to know if anyone DOES or DOESN'T > have this problem. i'd like to know if i > need to figure something out, or if it > is a bug. i've had this problem for > at least 1.5 years, and have never > figured out a solution. > > i always wrote it off as a "bug" in the resolver. > i have experienced some odd behavior relating to > DNS & /etc/hosts resolving and remember many posts > over the years relating to quirky behavior. I'm running ppp -alias with no problems doing anything through the firewall (except choice apps like cvsup that do the funky ftp-reverse-connection thingy). > > > > ppp aliased IP addresses = 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.12 > > > > > > > > BSD1 <-> BSD2 <-> Internet > > > > (ppp) (ppp -alias) > > > > (0.X) (192.168.0.0) ^ change this. It's a Class A no-no. What's your netmask? > > BSD2 resolves 192.168.0.X just fine. > > BSD1's nameserver forwards to 192.168.0.0 > > PS. someone mentioned that it is bad to use "X.X.X.0" > as an IP, but i thought it was conventional to use > that number for default gateways ... .1 is the traditional gateway. .0 is the lower broadcast address. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message