From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 0:13: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9361637B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitart.com (BITart-45.BITart.com [206.103.221.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABE2243E4A for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerti@bitart.com) Received: (qmail 54500 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2002 07:13:03 -0000 Received: from atlantis.bitart.com (192.168.100.2) by gw.bitart.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2002 07:13:03 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:13:05 -0500 Subject: Re: arplookup xx.xxx.xx.xxx failed: host is not on local network Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org To: "Chris Byrnes" From: Gerd Knops In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) 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 Sunday, Sep 15, 2002, at 14:08 US/Central, Chris Byrnes wrote: > My /var/log/messages is being filled, non-stop, by these errors looped: > > Sep 15 13:41:28 servername /kernel: arplookup xx.xxx.xx.xxx failed: > host is not on local network > Sep 15 13:41:28 servername /kernel: arplookup xx.xxx.xx.xxx failed: > host is not on local network > > After doing some reading, I've already issued, "sysctl -w > net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0" thinking that would fix the > problem. Unfortunately, it has not. > > Any ideas? > I see those too, but only if sshd is running. Maybe some kind of attack attempt? Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message