On 2012-03-30, at 6:56 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: > I had to use an IP number in the ipgw pair in the ipnet to force it to appear > in /net/ndb. I'm not sure whether this is expected but undocumented > bahaviour or a bug, but a domain name didn't cut it. I'd be curious to know.
A hostname can map to many IP addresses, so in situations like this you need to list the specific IP address. (I don't know if ndb explicitly ignores hostnames here, but it's a general rule in networking configurations that gateway interfaces must be specified by address to avoid ambiguity.)