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Re: beginner question on route

From Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: beginner question on route
Date 2014-07-07 19:40 +0300
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On 7.7.14 19:30, Magnus Warker wrote:

> Ok. What does a destination 0.0.0.0 mean? And what does a gateway
> 0.0.0.0 mean?

Destination 0.0.0.0 is associated with netmask 0.0.0.0, and it means
that all destinations that have come this far in the table match, so
its gateway is the default route to the outside world.

Gateway 0.0.0.0 means that there is none: the destination is reachable
directly on the local network.

> And BTW: Why does "route" last several seconds until the table is
> printed (while "route -n" prints the table immediately)?

The time goes to the name service attempting to reverse resolve the
addresses in the table. A long time means that the resolution timed
out of some reason.

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Tauno Voipio

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beginner question on route Magnus Warker <magnux@mailinator.com> - 2014-07-05 09:09 +0200
  Re: beginner question on route detha <detha@foad.co.za> - 2014-07-05 09:38 +0200
    Re: beginner question on route Magnus Warker <magnux@mailinator.com> - 2014-07-07 18:30 +0200
      Re: beginner question on route Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2014-07-07 19:40 +0300
      Re: beginner question on route William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-07-07 20:34 +0000
  Re: beginner question on route William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-07-06 04:44 +0000
    Re: beginner question on route Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-07-06 10:34 +0200

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