Hi there,
I switched to a new DSL provider, and this provider assigns an IP address
using DHCP. No problem, a hostname.msk1 with just "dhcp" in it works great.
When digging a bit deeper (purely out of interest), I noticed that
/sbin/dhclient-script explicitly does:
route add $new_ip_address 127.0.0.1 >/dev/null 2>&1
... when it gets a lease. This route is deleted when necessary.
When I use hostname.if to statically assign an address to an interface, no
route to 127.0.0.1 is created. I've looked around, but I'm afraid I don't
understand why dhclient-script goes out of its way to set this route.
Could someone point me in the right direction? I'd like to understand the
effects of setting (or not setting) such a route...
Regards,
--
Jurjen Oskam
Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
