From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 21 19:47:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056B114E14 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:44:41 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Jason Canon" , Subject: RE: netstat -r Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:44:41 -0700 Message-ID: <000001be8c6a$12640780$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <71F888185DE0D01191CD00C0DFA9A3081C9E34@MX> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Our FreeBSD server has been in operation for about a year and it just > runs like a charm. Every so often > I do "netstat -r" just to make sure that I'm still being the bandwidth > hog on our network. Today, however, > instead of the customary inverse-mapping that I get from the /etc/hosts > file I got a note on each listing saying: > > "read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net" followed by our Private IP > Address and Ethernet Address > > What could have changed to create this output? We have always been > using RFC 1918 addressing > along with NAT. It's telling you that you tried to reverse resolve an IP address that was private without configuring your name server to reverse them correctly. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message