Re: route reads /etc/networks, but not /etc/hosts

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 03:27:41PM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> route, or netstat -r
> 
> $ route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 195.96.97.241   *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
> 44.137.40.122   *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0
> default         195.96.97.241   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0

Strange:

[9:32am] root@hamishpc:/home/hamish# strace route |& grep hosts
read(4, "order hosts,bind\nmulti on\n", 4096) = 26
open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY)            = 4

[9:32am] root@hamishpc:/home/hamish# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
localnet        *               255.255.255.128 U     0      0        0 eth0
default         silly.rising.co 0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0

It certainly uses /etc/hosts here (although the name shown comes from DNS).
I have netbase 3.16-5 and libc6 2.1.2-9. (Probably old as I am a bit
behind in my apt-gets.)


Hamish
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