DNS Woes

[Jeff Vian]

Cowles, Steve wrote:

>Mark Neidorff wrote:
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>>On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 stucklenp at charter.net wrote:
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>>route -n yields
>>Destination    Gateway       Genmask        Flags    Metric    Ref    Use
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>IFace
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>>24.159.200.0   0.0.0.0       255.255.252.0  U        0         0      eth0
>>127.0.0.0      0.0.0.0       255.0.0.0      U        0         0      lo
>>0.0.0.0        24.159.200.1  0.0.0.0        UG       0         0      eth0
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>>"route print" on Windoze yields:
>>Active Routes:
>>Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface
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>Metric
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>>          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0     24.159.200.1  24.159.201.xxx
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>20
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>>     24.159.200.0    255.255.252.0   24.159.201.xxx  24.159.201.xxx
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>20
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>>   24.159.201.xxx  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1
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>20
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>>   24.255.255.255  255.255.255.255   24.159.201.xxx  24.159.201.xxx
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>20
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>>        127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1
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>1
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>>        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0   24.159.201.xxx  24.159.201.xxx
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>20
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>>  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255   24.159.201.xxx  24.159.201.xxx
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>1
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>>Default Gateway:      24.159.200.1
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>>Is it a typo on your part????? You lease an ip in the
>>24.159.201 range, but your nic in fedora is in the
>>24.159.200 range!!!!!  That would mess everything up.
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>>Mark
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>Given the netmask (255.255.252.0), the IP/network address shown above looks
>to be correct to me.
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>Long pause...
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>Well, except for windoze brain dead TCP/IP stack calculating a classful
>broadcast address instead of classless. The correct broadcast address (given
>the netmask) should be 24.159.203.255. Oh, and how about the 20 hop metric.
>Gezzz! I'm surprised this system is even working on the network.
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>Steve Cowles
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Yeah,  But even more interesting is that the windows box, (brain dead as 
it is), supposedly works and his linux box doesn't !!!!!      This 
doesn't look right to me.

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