From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 22 11:43:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.erols.com (smtp4.erols.com [207.172.3.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D6415A29 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcanon@comtechnologies.com) Received: from comtechnologies.com (207-172-71-38.s38.as5.frd.va.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.71.38]) by smtp4.erols.com (8.8.8/smtp-v1) with ESMTP id OAA01730; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:40:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <371F6D15.BCBABA04@comtechnologies.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:40:21 -0400 From: Jason Canon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Roshchin Cc: David Schwartz , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat -r References: <199904220323.WAA25047@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I do believe you are correct about someone at IANA performing a bit of "tweaking". The problem on our server cleared up with no action on our part. Thanks, Jason Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > 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 > > > > I don't think so. > As one of the previous responders noted, for some reason, > today at least several hosts in 10.x.x.x zone had the reverse lookup > set to show read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net > > I had seen it myself for our regional router (or whatever it is) - > today mid-day, then it turned back to be nameless again. > > It looks like somebody at IANA was tweaking (I hope not hacking :) > the DNS for 10.0.0.1 or its part. > > IgoR > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message