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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:56:37 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu, mango@communique.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: loopback and multicast messed up on /etc/sysconfig ?
Message-ID:  <199512140556.GAA26576@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199512140505.QAA27518@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Dec 14, 95 04:05:19 pm

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As David Dawes wrote:
> 
> >> Are you using /etc/resolv.conf?  Does your nameserver respond to the
> >> reverse query for 224.0.0.0?  Did you wait 45 seconds for the DNS
> >> request timing out?

> >I _never_ realized it might be a multicast thing ....
> 
> I've seen this too.  I added something equivalent to
> localhost.rev for multicast.

I'm mirroring MCAST.NET. and 224.IN-ADDR.ARPA. :-}

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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