From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 16 20:30:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7918A37B40C for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5H3U2h27107; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200106170330.f5H3U2h27107@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: bem@atlanta-bsd.org Subject: Re: docs/28215: Incorrect/misleading documentation for arp Reply-To: bem@atlanta-bsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/28215; it has been noted by GNATS. From: bem@atlanta-bsd.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, mcowger@bowdoin.edu Cc: Subject: Re: docs/28215: Incorrect/misleading documentation for arp Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:25:42 -0400 (EDT) I was unable to verify this. As long as the hostname is in /etc/hosts, it works for me. I did not try a dns name, though. See example output: bandicoot# arp -s bandicoot 00:d0:b7:1d:7c:06 bandicoot# uname -a FreeBSD bandicoot.atlanta-bsd.org 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #2: Sat Jun 16 17:19:24 EDT 2001 root@bandicoot.atlanta-bsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 bandicoot# arp -an ? (192.168.0.1) at 0:10:5a:1b:ef:d9 [ethernet] ? (192.168.0.3) at 0:10:b5:4b:17:ca [ethernet] ? (192.168.0.4) at 0:d0:b7:1d:7c:6 permanent [ethernet] bandicoot# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.atlanta-bsd.org 192.168.0.4 bandicoot bandicoot.atlanta-bsd.org bandicoot# To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message