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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!News.LiveNet.Net!beast From: jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't traceroute to virtual hosts Date: Mon, 06 May 96 02:21:08 GMT Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4mjnl4$hgn@PaperBoy.LiveNet.Net> References: <4mhaeg$f8@venus.os.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blue.livenet.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4mhaeg$f8@venus.os.com>, craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) wrote: >Folks, > >I have configured virtual hosts like so: > >ifconfig de0 inet alias x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffff > Try this instead ifconfig de0 inet alias x.x.x.x 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 >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. > >Ifconfig doesn't like it when I try to configure the netmask with the >0xfffffff0 mask so I'm assuming you have to use 0xffffffff. Is the inability >to finish a traceroute normal behaviour for FreeBSD virtual hosts? > >Thanks, > >Craig > > >=================================================================== >Orbit Systems Phone: 508-753-8776 >400 Grove St. Email: craigs@os.com >Worcester, MA 01605 http://www.os.com/ Adding localhost as the gateway gives it something that it understands as where to respond to. Without the gateway, the aliased ifconfig doesn't know how to route its packets if you are calling it from the same machine it is aliased on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Sloan jsloan@livenet.net Vice President LiveNet, Inc. 413 Davis St. Suite 106 Full Service Internet Provider Virginia Beach VA 23462 Dialup and dedicated connections Ph: 804-499-9328 Virtual Web, Email, and FTP hosting http://www.livenet.net info@livenet.net webmaster@livenet.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------