From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 20:09:18 2004 Return-Path: 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 576E216A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 20:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.prodigy.net.mx (nlpproxy02.prodigy.net.mx [148.235.52.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9A8143D48 for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 20:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lanjoe9@prodigy.net.mx) Received: from prodigy.net.mx (du-200-66-178-129.prodigy.net.mx [200.66.178.129])(built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HXB00HNHQ2K0W@smtp.prodigy.net.mx>; Thu, 06 May 2004 22:08:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 12:40:05 -0500 From: Alejandro 'Lanjoe9' Valenzuela To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <409926F5.5030800@prodigy.net.mx> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Subject: Odd DNS/DHCP behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 03:09:18 -0000 Hello everyone, I've got a computer with FreeBSD 4.9 and it's connected vía LAN, to a gate2wire broadband módem/router/etc The computer configures itself correctly vía the DHCP server inside the modem, and everything seems to work fine, but I get these odd messages and sometimes it can't resolve names until I try several times. It isn't much of a problem, but I'd like to know what it means.. (btw, the machine's name is "angel" (it wasn't my idea :P) and the domain is the modem's default: 2wire.net. The modem itself is accessible at gateway.2wire.net from inside the LAN). [...] May 5 09:47:58 angel dhclient: New Network Number: 172.16.0.0 May 5 09:47:58 angel dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 172.16.255.255 May 5 10:12:00 angel dhclient: New Network Number: 172.16.0.0 May 5 10:12:00 angel dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 172.16.255.255 May 5 10:36:38 angel dhclient: New Network Number: 172.16.0.0 May 5 10:36:38 angel dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 172.16.255.255 [...] May 5 12:29:20 angel lynx: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "gateway.2wire.net IN AAAA", got type "A" [...] May 5 12:24:44 angel ftpd: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "angel.gateway.2wire.net IN AAAA", got type "A" May 5 12:24:44 angel ftpd: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "angel.gateway.2wire.net IN AAAA", got type "A" May 5 12:25:11 angel ftpd: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "angel.gateway.2wire.net IN AAAA", got type "A" May 5 12:25:47 angel last message repeated 4 times