Subject: Re: ifconfig alias routing problems...
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: current-users
Date: 10/17/1995 13:36:02
Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> wrote:
> I have an interface (le0) configured as 192.129.84.3. I then
> ifconfig le0 alias 192.129.84.9
> ...This seems fine. I can't ping the address .9, but
I've noticed this with a machine I have serving N web-domains. It can't
see any of its aliases even though the rest of the world can.
> route add 192.129.84.9 localhost
> fixes that.
That seems like the wrong answer... I suspect you'd get all kinds of
weirdness happening as a result of that.
There's an owie in there somewhere. I've just not had the inclination
to make it better.