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From: Benedikt Schmidt <s_bschmi@ira.uka.de>
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Subject: Re: Usage of arp -s
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Matthew K. Cowger <mcowger@bowdoin.edu> wrote:
> THough I am going to send a pr to the docs peope about the confusion
> regarding that flag, because it says to use hostname, not IP address.
You _can_ use 'arp -s' with the hostname. If the first argument after
-s is no valid IP address arp uses gethostbyname() to get the address.

Perhaps the hostname couldn't be resolved in your case.

-- 
Benedikt


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