iproute2 blackhole route
Today I was doing some empirical testing of an application’s behavior when one of its authentication servers becomes unreachable. I typically do this with a null route on an upstream device, but noticed that iproute2 has this built in with a nice, memorable syntax. According to ip-route(8), one of the route types is blackhole: blackhole - these destinations are unreachable. Packets are discarded silently. The local senders get an EINVAL error....