Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:19:31 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, 'Andrew Reilly' <areilly@bigpond.net.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 continued Message-ID: <20010924161930.R37693@buffoon.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <swr8swwe85.8sw@localhost.localdomain> References: <20010924160936.A10863@gurney.reilly.home> <00e001c144c8$c33bf900$0a01a8c0@den2> <20010924070102.I4205@buffoon.automagic.org> <swr8swwe85.8sw@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:00:58PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > RFC 1122 does not state that "every possible address within 127/8 > > must be treated as though it is a configured loopback address", > > and to interpret it as such is bizarre and counter-intuitive. > > Be nice; that's a tough thing to say convincingly, intuitions being what > they are. Intuitions being what they are, and my opinion being my opinion :) > I don't see need for any hack. (None beyond the need to mess with this > stuff at all. I think this stuff would be better hidden and out of the > routing table listings, boot scripts, etc.) Having loopback addresses > automatically loop back shouldn't suprise anyone. Right. Having traffic pointed at non-local addresses being treated as local is surprising, though. > > route add 127.0.0.0 -netmask 255.0.0.0 -iface lo0 -blackhole > > I sure don't see how anyone could get that from the "route" man page. Clearly I am a miracle worker, then :) > > But, whatever. This is hardly a monumental requirement worth bickering > > over. > > But apparently worthwhile to Joe, me, and others, if not FreeBSD. Looks > to me like a (sometime-counter-productive ;-) attempt to discourage other > opinions. I *am* Joe :) Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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