system-config-network & Zeroconf

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:53:04 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:

> This is a really evil thing to do. I once had somebody misconfigure a
> netmask on one of the dell.com inbound mail servers to 0.0.0.0, which
> is effectively the same thing. Nobody could figure out why it had all
> sorts of wierd errors but overall network connectivity looked like it
> worked fine.

Yes, using proxy arp is definitely not covered under best network practices.
As is routing by ICMP redirect. Best to avoid both if possible.