From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:37:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:37:14 -0400 Received: from krusty.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:53264 "HELO krusty.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:37:04 -0400 Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 02:37:22 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: Kai Henningsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19 Message-ID: <20010909023722.A1482@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kai Henningsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010905152738.C5912BC06D@spike.porcupine.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20010905182033.D3926@emma1.emma.line.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20010906151113.A29583@ma <88VMRprXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <88VMRprXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kai Henningsen schrieb am Samstag, den 08. September 2001: [old Postfix versions consider network classes] > The WHAT?! > > Classes have been dead since around 1993! In case you missed that from the paragraph below that you quoted, Postfix tries to look up the netmasks from the interfaces nowadays - and stumbles across incompatibilities that are the reason for this thread. You can always manually override this configuration. > > but there have been many complaints by people that this would > > get subnets wrong. A couple of months ago, Postfix has started to look > > up the netmasks as well. -- Matthias Andree Outlook (Express) users: press Ctrl+F3 for the full source code of this post. begin dont_click_this_virus.exe end