Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 12:54:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: jc@irbs.com, graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: "arp info overwritten" problem Message-ID: <199505161954.MAA08997@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505161705.KAA21300@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at May 16, 95 10:05:10 am
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> > > BROADCAST.fu-berlin.de is a machine, it has an A record. > > A lot of nets have a record for their broadcast address, silly but then. > The reverse record is much more useful. It is not silly at all, this is to replace what was once done with /etc/networks files. You should be able to do things like: ifconfig de0 inet gndrsh.aac.dev.com broadcast bcast-aacnet-100mb-a.aac.dev.com and have things work. This is more import for network names than broadcast addresses :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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