From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 13:48:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4469D37B417 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:48:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.128.79.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.128.79] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161x1V-0005Wy-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 13:48:03 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA8LjVI11125; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:45:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:45:19 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arplookup failed Message-ID: <20011108134519.G51134@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tech@squid.tznet.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:31:18AM -0600 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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. This is a misconfiguration on the remote machine. The remote machine thinks the other is local (which it is physically, but is not logically) and is trying to ARP your machine. Watch what happens with tcpdump(8) and all will be clear. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message