Bug 8975
Summary: | Broadcasting fails when default gateway can't be reached. | ||
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Product: | Networking | Reporter: | Enrique Arizon Benito (enrique.arizonbenito) |
Component: | IPV4 | Assignee: | Stephen Hemminger (stephen) |
Status: | REJECTED UNREPRODUCIBLE | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P1 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Kernel Version: | 2.6.22 | Subsystem: | |
Regression: | --- | Bisected commit-id: |
Description
Enrique Arizon Benito
2007-09-03 08:19:26 UTC
Perhaps your application is attempting to resolve the address. Even if the address is given in network form (192.168.10.255), many applications first call DNS first (gethostbyname or getaddrinfo), and this requires the host to talk to the DNS server. |