From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] how to create a blackhole/null route
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:37:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FEC4AFCF-D292-4F46-B64B-B9D27E94385D@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6F1265385F9F18BCA2B6FB9A6C6B1236@smtp.pobox.com>
On July 27, 2024 10:19:18 PM EDT, Romano <me+unobe@fallglow.com> wrote:
>On Sat Jul 27 18:23:42 -0700 2024, sl@stanleylieber.com wrote:
>> today's commits fixed multiple kernel bugs and resolved this issue
>> for me. here's how to setup a successful blackhole route:
>>
>> # create a null device with junk ip address
>> ; ip/ipconfig null /dev/mordor 192.69.69.69 255.255.255.0
>
>Is there a reason why /dev/mordor and not /dev/null? Is that needed
>to actually return some junk to splooge over the requester?
>
the example in ipconfig(8) uses /dev/mordor, but i don't think there is any functional difference for this application.
corrections welcome.
sl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-28 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-27 5:00 Stanley Lieber
2024-07-28 1:18 ` sl
2024-07-28 2:19 ` Romano
2024-07-28 4:37 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2024-07-31 2:09 sl
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