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From: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu (Doug White)
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Subject: Re: netstat -i for lo0
Date: 27 Sep 1997 15:22:24 +0800
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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