Subject: misc/3109: bug in rtquery.8
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/15/1997 14:50:25
>Number: 3109
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: bug in rtquery.8
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 14 22:05:01 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: SAITOH Masanobu
>Organization:
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SAITOH Masanobu (msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp)
University of Electro-Communications
>Release: latest -current
>Environment:
System: NetBSD ifree.spa.is.uec.ac.jp 1.2B NetBSD 1.2B (IFREE) #28: Tue Dec 24 14:13:18 JST 1996 msaitoh@ifree.spa.is.uec.ac.jp:/var/sources/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/IFREE i386
>Description:
See rtquery.8:
> When querying gated, the
> .Em poll
> command is preferred over the
> .I Request <===========
> command because the response is not subject to Split Horizon and/or
and try "man rtquery":
> ified, rtquery uses the poll command, an undocumented extension to the
> RIP protocol supported by gated(8). When querying gated, the poll com-
> mand is preferred over the command because the response is not subject to
*
"Request" is missing.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Apply following patch:
--- rtquery.8.orig Tue Oct 15 00:46:04 1996
+++ rtquery.8 Wed Jan 15 14:42:33 1997
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
When querying gated, the
.Em poll
command is preferred over the
-.I Request
+.Em Request
command because the response is not subject to Split Horizon and/or
Poisoned Reverse, and because some versions of gated do not answer
the Request command. Routed does not answer the Poll command, but
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: