Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:10:22 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat -r (fwd) Message-ID: <19990422201022.H1229@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199904230059.TAA08580@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>; from Igor Roshchin on Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 07:59:31PM -0500 References: <199904230059.TAA08580@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
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On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 07:59:31PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Igor Roshchin remarked > > I understand what the RFCs say, and i understand what people are trying to > say with the advices (I have like the one just above, but I don't see how it > fits in the reality. > > Check the traceroute I pasted below - that router 10.0.232.27 > is not on my internal network. (I have NO private IP addresses). > So, are you saying I need to have all 2^512 (18609625) in my > /etc/hosts file ???? If they're not your addresses on your internal network that you're using, they should never be near your router anyway. There's a problem unto itself. Ideally, of course, you should use DNS to hold the reverse records for the IP's you're using on your internal network on your internal nameserver. That's what DNS is for. If it was working before, it was only because you were getting negative responses from the reverse nameservers for 10.IN-ADDR.ARPA, and so it checked the hosts file. If you put hosts first (desirable in any event IMO), that's not a problem. > Besides > If I do "whois -h arin.net 10.0.232.27" (or 10.0.0.1) > it says that there are two default nameservers for that zone. > Actually, last night one of them (BLACKHOLE.ISI.EDU) > was not responding to queries at all. > (I guess, it probably was it that responded with the funny names > earlier yesterday, but then was taken down) That's because IANA (finally) put up bogus reverse records for those IP's. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller MF4839 http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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