From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) From: Lyndon Nerenberg In-Reply-To: <53959c43adaed20daca8f35aedfb90e1@proxima.alt.za> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:45:32 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <53959c43adaed20daca8f35aedfb90e1@proxima.alt.za> To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] my plan9 server isn't responding Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7276c1a2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2012-03-30, at 6:56 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: > I had to use an IP number in the ipgw pair in the ipnet to force it to = appear in /net/ndb. I'm not sure whether this is expected but = undocumented bahaviour or a bug, but a domain name didn't cut it. I'd = be curious to know. A hostname can map to many IP addresses, so in situations like this you = need to list the specific IP address. (I don't know if ndb explicitly = ignores hostnames here, but it's a general rule in networking = configurations that gateway interfaces must be specified by address to = avoid ambiguity.)=