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Date:      Thu, 3 May 2001 11:38:28 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Arplookup
Message-ID:  <20010503113828.A18347@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20010502231803.A40482@mushhaven.net>; from mistwolf@mushhaven.net on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:18:03PM -0400
References:  <20010502231803.A40482@mushhaven.net>

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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:18:03PM -0400, Jamie Norwood wrote:
> OK, I am at wits end. I am getting:
> 
> May  2 11:04:49 hostname /kernel: arplookup x.x.x.x failed: host is not on 
> local network
> 
> x.x.x.x is, of course, a real ip, and it is not, in fact, on the network.
> The problem is, I have no idea what this IP is or why my box cares so
> much about it. Yet this message is flooding my logs. 

I think this message means is that according to the netmask set
on your interfaces the machine doesn't fall into the local network
addresses for any interface. If you are seeing the address alot that
probably means that your machine is trying to route traffic through
this machine (maybe because of routing updates?).

You could use netstat -nr and ifconfig -a to investigate fruther.

	David.

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