rfc1978 help

Fri Nov 5 20:15:45 UTC 2004

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Jeroen Massar wrote:

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> > 3/ I got the following. ls it normail?
> > why there is connection to the broadcast address
> >
> > tcp        0      1 202.64.230.8:33397
> > 192.168.255.255:25      SYN_SENT
>
> 255.255 or anything ending in 255 doesn't need to be a broadcast
> interface. Welcome to the wonderful world of CIDR :)

This is probably a bounce headed toward deliberately broken MXes - anyone
else seeing a lot of this lately?  (tons of domains with conspicuously
common nameservers, serving up unreachable A/MX and hosing queues)

J.

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