On 7/28/19 5:09 AM, Michael Ziegler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a couple "unreachable" routes on one of my systems, like such:
>
>> ip route add unreachable 10.0.0.0/8 metric 255
>> ip route add unreachable 192.168.0.0/16 metric 255
>
> Unfortunately this results in unparseable JSON output from "ip":
>
>> # ip -j route show | jq .
>> parse error: Objects must consist of key:value pairs at line 1, column 84
>
> The offending JSON objects are these:
>
>> {"unreachable","dst":"10.0.0.0/8","metric":255,"flags":[]}
>> {"unreachable","dst":"192.168.0.0/16","metric":255,"flags":[]}
> "unreachable" cannot appear on its own here, it needs to be some kind of
> field.
>
> The manpage says to report here, thus I do :) I've searched the
> archives, but I wasn't able to find any existing bug reports about this.
> I'm running version
>
it's a problem printing the route type in general - any route not of
type 'unicast'. I will send a patch
