From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 09:50:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43D716A421 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:50:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481E543D46 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:50:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so1374748nzo for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:50:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=VJ6dEtellj504+JL5iGbTpz4znXXfmcLbOSBMg8z98R6ft7beppy3pGss9L8I54TN+Swc5gPwNfkqno+hGfUs8EYzXlybokn6I2J7aYSWx/80A7J/FIx48Uftlc8BV9z6WcYct+8bxiQqAu66XnOOWZbs7W3hJLajixzl+hYxIs= Received: by 10.36.222.32 with SMTP id u32mr19108nzg; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:08:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ([59.93.164.185]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id c12sm2616481nzc.2005.07.20.02.08.45; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:08:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42DE1488.8090706@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:38:24 +0530 From: Subhro Organization: Indian Institute of Information Technology User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington References: <20050720090312.GC99857@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050720090312.GC99857@ns2.wananchi.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020006070501020504010502" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: host is not on local network?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:50:59 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020006070501020504010502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/20/2005 14:33, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >Hello FreeBSD users, > >I am sure I can learn from the expertise available on this list! >I know it has some of the best brains in networking. > >I have several machines on the same physical LAN, but all those >machines have been sending me this output in their daily security >run output for the past few days: > > >hostname-changed.wananchi.com kernel log messages: > > >>arplookup 62.8.72.2 failed: host is not on local network >>arplookup 62.8.72.2 failed: host is not on local network >> >> > >I have asked our network engineers what they screwed up that led to >these messages coming on our servers every night but they are not >giving me answers, so I am looking for something to use to hit >them where it matters ;) > >Can someone explain this to me? > > > Sure, however we need some more information. What does the Subnet inside your LAN look like? Thanks S. --------------020006070501020504010502--