From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 6:43:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A44A37B41A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 06:43:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA08225; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:43:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:43:49 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arplookup failed Message-ID: <20011108094349.A8209@blackhelicopters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tech@squid.tznet.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:31:18AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:31:18AM -0600, Scott Pilz wrote: > > I've seen many posts on freebsd-questions but no answers that have > helped me with this problem. > > We have recently obtained a new block of address space (66.170.64.1/20). > > I run around 8-10 FreeBSD machines in the office, every one has the same > problem .. . > > They are on the 66.170.64.x block, netmask of 255.255.255.0. > > Upon trying to ping another machine -- NT lets say, that has the address > of 66.170.68.x, or 65.x, etc. will issue the following error: > > /kernel: arplookup 66.170.xx.xxx failed: host not on local network. > > Now, there MUST be a way to easily fix this. I'm sure it's just a > configuration problem, please advise. You need to fix your netmask. You have a netmask of /20, yet your machines are set to /24. The error means exactly what it says: 66.170.68.xx is not on the local network. Set your netmask to /20, and it will just work. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message