> It's part of what nss-myhostname provides. There's clearly no > consensus on the "gateway" feature.
The belief of operating systems' programmers that a lack of a default gateway must imply no network connectivity constricts useful network designs. My objection to the "gateway" name is simply that "ping gateway" gives applications another way to test this incorrect belief. -glen -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
