Re: [gentoo-dev] ThisAddressDoesNotExist

[Peter Ruskin]

Thanks Mickey, I feel better about it now.  Networking is not my strong 
point and I think I have the same setup as when I'm running Mandrake, 
which doesn't behave this way.  Yes, `name -n` does produce a sensible 
output.

On Tuesday 06 Aug 2002 19:48, Mickey Mullin wrote:
> You should have your own IP address listed in your /etc/hosts file.
> For DHCP addresses, there's a post on forums.gentoo.org about it, but
> it appears to be down again.  If I remember after forums comes back up,
> I'll send along the appropriate text (along with a link to the post -
> it's from the thread related to a "sticky" at the top of one of the
> forums).
>
> Basically, your resolver is either ignoring /etc/hosts (if you DO have
> the entry for your address there) or, failing to find your IP address
> in /etc/hosts it's trying to resolve the mnemonic for that IP address
> (which is, of course, impossible for 192.168.*.* addresses).
>
> You can avoid the problem in the meantime by using the options that
> turn off name resolution (often a "-n" switch - "route -n").
>
> Also, "host <any martian address (192.168..., 10..., etc.)>" will
> generally fail in some way or another.
>
> One final possibility is that your ISP's name servers resolve all
> martian/private addresses to "ThisAddressDoesNotExist" just for
> giggles.  ;)
>
> Mickey
>
> On 06.08.2002 at 13:28:36, Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@×××××××××.com> wrote:
> > I can't figure out why `route` and `host` list
> > "ThisAddressDoesNotExist" instead of the ip address.  Can anyone
> > help?
> >
> > My default route to the internet is ppp0 using Alcatel USB modem.  I
> > have an ethernet card that connects to one other local machine.
> >
> > ppp0 works OK.  I can see the other machine using samba over eth0 but
> > I can't understand the "ThisAddressDoes" in the route table - I guess
> > that's followed by "does not exist".  With the same setup on
> > Mandrake, route shows 192.168.1.0 and also lists:
> > 127.0.0.0       *            255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
> > lo
> >
> > [16:01 root@penguin: ~]
> > # route
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway      Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface 81-86-192-1.dsl *            255.255.255.255 UH    0      0
> >    0 ppp0 ThisAddressDoes *            255.255.255.0   U     0      0
> >        0 eth0 default      81-86-192-1.dsl 0.0.0.0         UG    0
> >   0        0 ppp0
> >
> > [16:02 root@penguin: ~]
> > # netstat -in
> > Kernel Interface table
> > Iface  MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
> > Flg eth0  1500   0    18      0      0      0  1142      0      0
> >  0 BMRU lo   16436   0   594      0      0      0   594      0      0
> >      0 LRU ppp0  1500   0 50779      0      0      0 47419      0
> >  0      0 MOPRU
> >
> > [16:04 root@penguin: ~]
> > # host penguin.ruskin
> > Host penguin.ruskin not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> >
> > [16:04 root@penguin: ~]
> > # host 192.168.1.6
> > 6.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ThisAddressDoesNotExist.

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