Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:25:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: ajhar@miami.edu (Edward Ajhar) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARP lookup failure Message-ID: <199909010025.UAA90455@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <ok671wx91a.fsf@husa.physics.miami.edu> from Edward Ajhar at "Aug 31, 1999 11:30:09 am"
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Edward Ajhar wrote, > > I recently moved my 3.2-stable machine to a different state. I now > get these messages regularly from the kernel. Does anyone know if I > have configured something improperly, or if it is a problem with the > local network? (The host 129.171.32.1 is a name server, but this does > not seem to have anything to do with the problem.) > > Thanks. > > > Aug 31 10:56:04 husa /kernel: arplookup 129.171.32.1 failed: host is not on local network > Aug 31 11:03:44 husa last message repeated 2 times > Aug 31 11:07:58 husa /kernel: arplookup 129.171.32.1 failed: host is not on local network > Aug 31 11:08:44 husa /kernel: arplookup 129.171.32.3 failed: host is not on local network You know, and this is just a guess, mind you, I think this command is saying that the ARP lookup is failing because the host with 129.171.32.3 is not on the local network. Sarcasm aside, your IP address likely changed when you moved, no? ARP is the Adress Resolution Protocol for Ethernet which works only on a local network. And 129.171.32.3 is not on your local network, but that is the way your machine can try to reach that address. Do you have a default route set? What does 'netstat -rn' return as well as 'ifconfig -a'? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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