From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 15:54:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4562C16A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:54:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from khaled@ipbill.com) Received: from mail.ipbill.com (mail.ipbill.com [217.73.64.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8489B43D48 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:54:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from khaled@ipbill.com) Received: (qmail 74258 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2005 09:14:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO khaledpc) (192.168.129.200) by mail.ipbill.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2005 09:14:16 -0000 From: "Khaled" To: "FreeBSD Hackers" Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:13:42 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: arplookup/arpresolved failure messages in mailserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:54:44 -0000 Hi, I am seeing a lot of these messages in my /var/log/messages directory and cannot understand why: arplookup 192.168.0.12 failed: could not allocate llinfo arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 192.168.0.12rt There were more of these messages for two other IPs (one external), but this is the only one with 'rt' trailed at the end of the IP. Whats this for? Its been happenning since yesterday and it seems that the server is attempting this every 2-3 seconds, which I think is the cause for a sluggish mailserver (this litterally happened over night!). Also, would this be linked to another incident which meant that all mail was being dumped in queue (im running qmail MTA)? Following a restart of the mail server, we experienced routing problems such that we were not able to access the server from the office LAN but could be accessed by another machine on its LAN; zebrad and ospfd did not start at restart. Why was this? This morning, all seems to be fine accept a couple of the following messages from last night: Sep 29 16:08:26 freebsd10 /kernel: arplookup 217.73.66.16 failed: host is not on local network Sep 29 17:40:50 freebsd10 /kernel: arplookup 217.73.66.16 failed: host is not on local network Sep 29 23:46:38 freebsd10 /kernel: arplookup 217.73.66.16 failed: host is not on local network Forgive me for being such a novice...but I am :) Thanks Khaled