Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARPA!WANCHO From: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: route add (was RIP) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12-May-87 00:16:00 EDT Article-I.D.: SIMTEL20.WANCHO.12301678188.BABYL Posted: Tue May 12 00:16:00 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 14-May-87 02:14:59 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 Thanks to all who responded, and to Mike Muuss with the "correct" answer: to insert the two lines for the default gateways (nominally the "mailbridge homing" gateway hosts) with the destination field of "0". This was NOT mentioned in *any* documentation we have. This class of missing information is exactly the sort of thing I would like to see published in an online document available to any newly ordained system administrator and network liaison. Let's call it the Internet Systems Administrator's Handbook: a collection of hints, tips, and common sense security items (yours and the network community) for operating in the Internet environment. If such a document existed, we would have known not to run routed and *why*. If you already have such a document in your local community, or have material to submit toward the compilation of such a document, maybe the NIC would be interested in collecting and organizing it... --Frank