Re: Difference in "netstat -rn" output in the last 2 months

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 08:46:04AM -0800, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 04:58:57PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> A> something has changed in the output of "netstat -rn" between
> A> 2024-11-23-195545 and 2025-01-22-151306. The default route is not listed as
> A> "default" anymore, but with "0.0.0.0" resp. "::/0". This breaks some tools
> A> (e.g. iocage). Iocage uses python, I'm not sure if it uses netstat or some
> A> other interface, so it may not be directly related to netstat itself but
> A> could be related to some other stuff (netlink maybe?).
> A> 
> A> Does this ring a bell for someone?
> 
> This is very likely changed by 9206c79961986c2114a9a2cfccf009ac010ad259.
> 
> Allan, may be make exclusion for the "default" to keep POLA? Otherwise,
> indeed at time of 15.0-RELEASE we will receive some negative feedback :)

I fully second this request.  I was very much annoyed by this change, as
"netstat -rn" is in my finger memory and seeing linuxish 0.0.0.0 instead
of our usual "default" was totally unexpected and rather confusing.

./danfe