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Old 01-29-2009, 04:08 AM   #1
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. as default gateway


When I was looking at the routing table of a CentOS 5.2 box, I noticed that the output of `route` showed the default gatewat as . (a dot). What does this mean?

I did some extensive googling, but all references to the 'route' command (CentOS-specific or not) did not show that.
 
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what are you running to get this? Could this be a weird DNS result? add -n to the route command if it's not already there..?
 
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I run 'route' to use this output.
'route -n' outputs as exprected.
The gateway is set to an ip address in the same subnet as eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network.
There seem to be no problems in traffic, yet I still do not understand what it means.
 
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so it does go away with a -n? DNS then. what does the response from "host your.gateway.ip.here" say?
 
  


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