From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 26 23:55:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA03858 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA03851 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:55:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA16019; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:53:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:53:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kevin Keyser cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat -i for lo0 In-Reply-To: <9709270102.AA04983@clio.rice.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Kevin Keyser wrote: > I have been seeing some strange behavior in my "netstat -i" numbers > for the loopback. Each time I run "netstat -i", ipkts and opkts are > incremented by 48. Note that it does not matter how long or short I > wait between invocations; the change is always 48, like running > netstat causes it. In the example below, the machine is otherwise > *very* idle, no cron jobs other than the install defaults, and is > the only node up on my net. I bet those added packets come from DNS lookups for `nova', `your-net' and `localhost'. Try running netstat -in instead, which disables the lookups. Note that the totals don't change. I get the same behavior but I do a DNS lookup to a server instead of to the localhost. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major