What's new on the 127.0.0/24 block in 7?

[Tom Evans]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 00:03 -0800, Chris H. wrote:
> Hello Mark. Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
> FWIW I'm hosting my own zone, out of my domain's address using a
> different host name. I'm simply forwarding the requests to a different
> port, so as to prevent port collision with the BIND. The zones are
> answered our of 127.0.0.2 || 3.
> I have absolutely no idea why FBSD v7 (on 2 machines) will only
> dole out 127.0.0.1, while all my other servers running RELENG_6 all
> dole out a /minimum/ of 127.0.0.1/8 by default. 

This makes absolutely no sense. My FreeBSD 7 laptop has lo0 configured
as 127.0.0.1/8 - THAT IS TO SAY, it has an IP address of 127.0.0.1 and a
netmask of 255.0.0.0 . All other 7 boxes I test have the same, as do all
the 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 boxes. Pray, what netmask does your lo0 have, given
that you insist it has 127.0.0.1/32 ? This would show up in ``ifconfig
lo0'' as 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffffff 

I very much doubt it is.


Tom
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