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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!op.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!docws001!ottnews!tomqnx.tomqnx.com!tom From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Subject: Re: Route cloning (disable - how to?) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 159.249.8.221 Message-ID: <Dv4oHn.6qu@ottnews.shl.com> Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. (Ottawa) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <4t0g99$pni@mandolin.qnet.com> <31F518A3.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> <yfgu3uxf84y.fsf@time.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 02:05:46 GMT Lines: 25 I find his statement about routed dumping core more interesting. I made an interesting discovery with tcpdump the other day. When first fired up, routed does a 'nslookup -type=PTR 205.xxx.xxx.0' to try to find what router to deal with for the network (if defined in gateways). I never realized that we should have a '0' entry in the in-addr.arpa definitions!! Regards, Tom Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@time.cdrom.com) wrote: : In article <4t41lp$r80@mandolin.qnet.com> patrick@qnet.com (Patrick Linstruth) writes: : ARP entries belong in the ARP tables like UNIX is supposed to be. : Needless to say, I disagree completely. Much needless replication of : code (and I don't see Patrick helping us *maintain* it :-) was : eliminated by folding the arp table into the general routing code. : Jordan : -- : - Jordan Hubbard : President, FreeBSD Project