[comp.unix.internals] Multiple IP addresses

richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (05/09/91)

In article <1991May7.145228.423@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
>and it is absolutely not true that it is common for
>a host to have multiple IP addresses.

Any host acting as a gateway between networks is likely to.  There are 7
such hosts within 50 feet of me.

-- Richard


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lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) (05/10/91)

richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>In article <1991May7.145228.423@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
>>and it is absolutely not true that it is common for
>>a host to have multiple IP addresses.

>Any host acting as a gateway between networks is likely to.  There are 7
>such hosts within 50 feet of me.

Any host with TCP/IP derived from BSD 4.2 or 4.3 has at least two:
one for Ethernet and one for the loopback network.

It was my understanding that shared libraries save many users of
SUNos much pain because they allow popping in a user-developed
DNS lookup handler that actually work.  Has SUN finally got this
one right?

Lance