Re: ip route refresh

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>]

On Saturday 31 July 2004 00:34 Glynn Clements's cat walking on the keyboard  
wrote:

> Luca Ferrari wrote:
> > I've noted on different system that when an ip route changes, the kernel
> > keeps the old one in a cache (I suppose) for a while. For example, if in
> > you /etc/hosts you have an entry:
> > 192.168.1.201 fluca fluca
> > and ping fluca it will try to connect to 192.168.1.201.
> > Now if you change the address and immediatly reping it, it will try again
> > the old host for a while. After a minute the system should be able to use
> > the new address. This also applies to routes.
> > Is there a way to force a cache-clear, thus modifications are immediatly
> > visible?
>
> 1. What does this have to do with routing? Unless I'm misunderstanding
> the above, this is a name-service issue.
>

No, it's not, since I've experienced it also using direct addresses. I mean, 
if you ping 192.168.1.201 the packets will follow a particular way. If you 
change your kernel route (thru 'route') and try to ping immediately the same 
host, the pakets will try to reach the host with the same way (if it is still 
valid). 

> 2. Are you using nscd? If so, try "/etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart".

No, I'm not using it.

Thanks,
Luca

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Luca Ferrari,
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