{bb} Re: Bizzare BBGen 3.1 problem

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <20040928183624.72ACDCD19@fupA.post.tele.dk> "Jeremy Bresley" <jbresley@mcleodusa.net> writes:

>Very weird problem happening since upgrading from 1.9e/BBGen 3.0 to BBGen 3.1.

>10.12.16.7 hub17-4.ats.mcleodusa.net #
[snip]
>red 10.12.28.1 is unreachable

>10.12.28.1 is NOT anywhere in my BB-hosts file.  Doesn't show up in
>DNS anywhere.

Well, assuming you run bbtest-net without any special options, it will
first perform a resolver lookup of "hub17-4.ats.mcleodusa.net".  If
that does not give an IP-address, it will use 10.12.16.7.

So the only way for bbgen to get that IP-address is via the resolver -
i.e. either you /etc/hosts file, or DNS. Since the change happened
when you upgraded from bbgen 3.0 to 3.1, I suspect that this host
is listed in your /etc/hosts file with the 10.12.28.1 IP-address.

(On almost all systems, bbgen 3.0 would try DNS first - then
/etc/hosts. In bbgen 3.1 this will usually be reversed, since most
systems are configured that way via /etc/host.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf
or whatever file does control the lookup sequence).


Henrik
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