From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 8 01:54:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24285 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24280 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA07304; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:54:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:54:18 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Pielorz To: Jim Mock cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arp lookup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Jim Mock wrote: > I posted this to -questions and didn't get a response so I figured I'd > try over here.. any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Anybody know how I can get rid of this message in my logs? > > Oct 6 20:40:41 phear /kernel: arplookup 206.58.100.1 failed: host is > not on local network Yes, it means literally what it says, the host 206.56.100.1 is not within the network of your machines nic, and something in the config is trying to pursuade it otherwise... > The ip does resolve.. > [snip] This doesn't matter - it won't make any difference whether it resolves or not unfortunately... :) > All of the machines on the local net are on the 206.58.96.* class c > and it shows up in the logs of all them. I thought it'd go away once > we added reverse lookups for it, but it hasn't. Any ideas? 206.58.96.* is not the same network as 206.58.100.1 - Do you have more than 1 class 'c' on the same wire? Run an 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -r -n' and send the results here, maybe that will shed some more light on it... Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message