>> this seems to make my route show output go from this:
>>     206.223.36.128    link#7             U
>> to this:
>>     206.223.36.128   invalid            U
>
>Have you rebuilt and re-installed libc since getnameinfo.c rev 1.32?  Note
>that since route is statically linked, you'll have to relink and reinstall
>it after re-installing libc.  "make build" should get all this right.

grr...i've only got 1.28 of getnameinfo.c.  fleh.  yeah, okay.  this
sort of change occurred to me after i wrote the previous email and
went off to do something completely different.

>> what was the problem you were trying to fix?
>
>That we had five different programs with six different pieces of code for
>formatting link-layer addresses.  I wanted to add a new link type, and
>only wanted to have to implement the code to format its addresses once.

a perfectly sound idea.  okay, cool.

>See <URL:http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2001/09/18/0003.html>.

i remember reading that...

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