From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 16:43:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA17887 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA17881 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00317; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:43:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dave Babler cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dumb routing question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Dave Babler wrote: > > In trying to optimize some things, I recently ran a verbose traceroute > and found the following at the start of it: > > ---- > 1 199.190.67.1 (199.190.67.1) 36 bytes to 205.148.224.9 120.225 ms > 36 bytes from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1: icmp type 3 (Dest Unreachable) code 3 Note the error has to do with the loopback interface. For some reason it's trying the loopback interface first then going elsewhere. I wouldn't worry about it myself, if you can ping out OK. I don't know if that is causing a performance hit or not. I would guess not. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major