Re: The 'route' output

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:20 AM, T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Here is my 'route' output:
>
>  $ route
>  Kernel IP routing table
>  Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
>  192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
>  link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
>  default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
>
> and I have two questions,
>
> - I haven't seen the "link-local" entry before. What's that?
>
> - The last line, the "default" line, will take a while to show up,
>  abut 2 or 3 seconds. where is the delay comes from?
>
> FYI, I'm using a local DNS caching server:
>
>  $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
>  # for interface eth0
>  search local
>  nameserver 192.168.0.100
>  nameserver 192.168.0.1

Do you have "169.254.0.0" when you use "route -n" rather than "link-local"?

The delay must be because you have "search local" in
"/etc/resolv.conf" and avahi-daemon installed.