On Jun 24, 2013, at 6:07 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> Looking in /net/ndb, my network looks like this: >> >> ip=127.0.0.1 ipmask=/104 ipgw=:: >> sys=gnot >> sys=gnot >> dom=gnot.localdomain >> dns=192.168.220.2 >> >> I don't know if that's correct. > > i think this is the issue. if the ip network is 127.0.0.1/104, > then the gateway (:: = 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0) is not on the > same network. so 192.168.220.2 can't be reached. /104 mask for IPv4 doesn't make sense. Can be at most /32. > by the way, for reasons that escape me, 127.0.0.1 has > a mask of /8. not sure why the local host needs 16777214 > ip addresses. See rfc1122 - the host requirements rfc - it documented existing practices (as of 1989). Probably because it was quicker to look up in the days of class based addressing, when 32 bit addressing was considered plentiful. 127.x.x.x is a class A address.
