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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't traceroute to virtual hosts Date: 5 May 1996 02:36:13 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4mhsqd$dv6@itchy.serv.net> References: <4mhaeg$f8@venus.os.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net In article <4mhaeg$f8@venus.os.com>, Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com> wrote: >Folks, > >I have configured virtual hosts like so: > >ifconfig de0 inet alias x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffff > >The virtual domains work fine except that I can't traceroute to them. The >traceroute basically times out trying to reach the last hop. My guess is that it is due to the fact that the virtual host machine is on subnet 0xfffffff0. That netmask looks a bit funny. You're saying that all the bits of the address are significant for network and none for host. You should probably be putting them on the class C. If you want to reach it from the local host its alias on, you can add a static route to it ; this is what we do. IE: ifconfig ed0 inet a.b.c.d alias route add a.b.c.d 127.0.0.1 -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson