Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:30:05 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Michael Meltzer" <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com> Cc: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Attila Nagy" <bra@fsn.hu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 127/8 in ip_output.c Message-ID: <200202140030.g1E0UeV97449@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Michael Meltzer" <mjm@michaelmeltzer.com> of "Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:23:13 EST." <03f401c1b4bb$7f97bfa0$34f820c0@ix1x1000>
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In message <03f401c1b4bb$7f97bfa0$34f820c0@ix1x1000>, "Michael Meltzer"
writes:
> I try it out tonight, head good things about it already, ThankYou.
>
> For what is worth, it seems the problem he is really a
> routing table issue, it seem that on FreeBSD-stable (without the code) if
> you where trying to ping 127.0.0.2 (which is not defined) the message goes
> out the default route, which is a bad thing :-) but by adding "route
> add -net 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0" which cleaned
> this up nicely and BTW is how most interfaces handle unknow local networks
> hosts
> :-) I am sure that thier is a problem doing this (never seen local host
> route the address 127.* space, :-) but .....
With UNIX there are a dozen ways to solve any problem. Here is
solution #2.
/sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 -netmask 255.0.0.0 -iface lo0 -blackhole
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