Greetings;
Confusion still reigns here.
For instance:
oot@coyote:~# ip m l eth0
2: eth0
link 01:00:5e:00:00:01
link 33:33:00:00:02:02
link 33:33:00:00:00:01
link 01:00:5e:00:00:fb
link 33:33:ff:62:fc:bb
link 33:33:00:00:00:fb
inet 224.0.0.251
inet 224.0.0.1
inet6 ff02::fb
inet6 ff02::1:ff62:fcbb
inet6 ff02::202
inet6 ff02::1
inet6 ff01::1
But add - -r so its supposed to show names, and get:
2: eth0
link 01:00:5e:00:00:01
link 33:33:00:00:02:02
link 33:33:00:00:00:01
link 01:00:5e:00:00:fb
link 33:33:ff:62:fc:bb
link 33:33:00:00:00:fb
inet (5 second pause) 224.0.0.251
inet all-systems.mcast.net
inet6 ff02::fb
inet6 ff02::1:ff62:fcbb
inet6 ff02::202
inet6 ip6-allnodes
inet6 ff01::1
Which, according to the manpage and my interpretation, should resolv the names
those 6 (mac?) addresses belong to. So while its seemingly working at the net
hardwares speed, I think its telling me I am miss-configured somehow. There are
not any ipv6 addresses in the hosts file that would translate to the same name
as the machines given name. I tried that several years ago and it caused errors
at the time.
This is an all static local network, with dns provided by everything here
pointed at the router for nameservice that's not in the hosts file, running
dnsmasq, which in turn forwards any dns lookups it doesn't have the answer to
cached, to my ISP's servers.
Shouldn't the -r version show FQDN's? And why is it not?
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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