Subject: Re: standards/5645: No answer from 0.0.0.0
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/25/1998 07:24:54
On 24 Jun 1998 09:13:28 -0700  Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:

> skeelo@white-dwarf.dyn.ml.org writes:
> > Any request to 0.0.0.0 gets no response.
> 
> The fact that BSD ever routed unitcast packets to a location that was
> not indicated in the routing table was a bug.  It is my belief that
> the routing table should be WYSIWYG.
> 
> If this weird routing is desired, one should be able to do the 
> following in /etc/netstart (*):
> 
> 	ifconfig lo0 alias 0.0.0.0
> 	route add -inet -host 0.0.0.0 -iface lo0
> 
> Please lets not wire routing policy into the code.

Just a suggestion (that I haven't got a chance to try at the
moment) - can this be done using a second loopback interface?

Simon.