Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 16:09:49 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: netstat stalls and errors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961009160731.16791A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961009085550.6317A-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Cliff Addy wrote: > netstat often stalls, sometimes partway through the listing. Sometimes > it will continue after a few seconds, sometimes not. And occasionally it > gives this error netstat normally attempts to translate numeric IP addresses back into host names. This might take a long time, and may sometimes fail. To make sure that this is the problem, you may want to try netstat -n (tells netstat to display numbers, so it doesn't spend time on translations). > > netstat: kvm_read: Bad address > I think there was a discussion of this on this list not too long ago. It simply means that connections were changing while netstat was reading the structures in the kernel. netstat does not lock any of the structure it reads, so from time to time they'll change while being used. > and keeps on going. Is there something wrong here? We're running 2.1.5R > > > Nadav
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