Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:40:21 -0400 From: Jason Canon <jcanon@comtechnologies.com> To: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat -r Message-ID: <371F6D15.BCBABA04@comtechnologies.com> References: <199904220323.WAA25047@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
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I do believe you are correct about someone at IANA performing a bit of "tweaking". The problem on our server cleared up with no action on our part. Thanks, Jason Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > Our FreeBSD server has been in operation for about a year and it just > > > runs like a charm. Every so often > > > I do "netstat -r" just to make sure that I'm still being the bandwidth > > > hog on our network. Today, however, > > > instead of the customary inverse-mapping that I get from the /etc/hosts > > > file I got a note on each listing saying: > > > > > > "read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net" followed by our Private IP > > > Address and Ethernet Address > > > > > > What could have changed to create this output? We have always been > > > using RFC 1918 addressing > > > along with NAT. > > > > It's telling you that you tried to reverse resolve an IP address that was > > private without configuring your name server to reverse them correctly. > > > > DS > > > > I don't think so. > As one of the previous responders noted, for some reason, > today at least several hosts in 10.x.x.x zone had the reverse lookup > set to show read-rfc1918-for-details.iana.net > > I had seen it myself for our regional router (or whatever it is) - > today mid-day, then it turned back to be nameless again. > > It looks like somebody at IANA was tweaking (I hope not hacking :) > the DNS for 10.0.0.1 or its part. > > IgoR > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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