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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: arp messages (what do they mean?)
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:51:31 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199607021750.LAA15983@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jul 2, 96 11:50:38 am"
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> Christoph P. Kukulies writes:
> > > > Jul  2 10:38:14 blues supfile[295]: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for
> > > > "1.42.101.193.in-addr.arpa", got "1.0.42.101.193.in-addr.arpa"
> > > >                                   __^__
> > > > (IP addresses changed slightly).
> > > > 
> > > > I'm running a 10 day old -current on that machine.
> > > 
> > > Umm, this message was removed from libc/net/gethostbydns() quite a while
> > > ago.  Are you sure you've got an up-to-date libc *AND* you're running
> > > current.  This looks like the classless domain stuff that Peter fixed in
> > 
> > Will double check again.
> 
> Whoops, I just checked and this still exists in -current.  It *looks*
> like someone hasn't setup their PTR stuff correctly, so
> 'linus.xyplex.de' needs to fix their DNS stuff.

Hey, I said I changed the IP address to something fictitious :-)

Here again the 'real' log message:
Jun 30 02:48:38 blues supfile[9411]: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for
"1.41.100.194.in-addr.arpa", got "1.0.41.100.194.in-addr.arpa"


> 
> >From my DNS box:
> Jul  2 11:46:05 ns named[101]: Lame server on '1.42.101.193.in-addr.arpa' (in '42.101.193.IN-ADDR.ARPA'?): [193.141.40.1].53 'xlink1.xlink.net': learnt (A=128.9.0.107,NS=192.76.144.66) 
> 
> I ran dnswalk on the 'xyplex.de' domain but the transfers failed, but in
> any cases things are a bit broken.
> 
> 
> Nate
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de