From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 17:19:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19282 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:19:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19273 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.25.95]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08701; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:19:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36479463.A08E88B8@seattleu.edu> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 17:18:27 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: Doug White Subject: Re: can't allocate llinfo References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Another critical piece of information that I forgot to mention was that I am a DHCP client. The addresses that get handed out are static, but if I disable the DHCP client and use just the address, I can't ping domain names (don't bother helping me with the DNS, I've got to read up first.) ;) Here's ifconfig -a and dhclient.leases: ed0: flags=c843 mtu 1500 inet 172.17.25.238 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 172.17.31.255 ether 00:40:95:76:9d:ef lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 tun0: flags=8010 mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010 mtu 552 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 lease { interface "ed0"; fixed-address 172.17.25.238; medium "link2"; option subnet-mask 255.255.240.0; option routers 172.17.16.1; option domain-name-servers 172.17.61.6,172.17.61.24; option domain-name "seattleu.edu"; option dhcp-lease-time 259200; option dhcp-message-type 5; option dhcp-server-identifier 172.17.61.25; option dhcp-renewal-time 129600; option dhcp-rebinding-time 226800; renew 2 1998/11/10 16:18:09; rebind 3 1998/11/11 19:18:09; expire 4 1998/11/12 04:18:09; } lease { interface "ed0"; fixed-address 172.17.25.238; medium "link2"; option subnet-mask 255.255.240.0; option routers 172.17.16.1; option domain-name-servers 172.17.61.6,172.17.61.24; option domain-name "seattleu.edu"; option dhcp-lease-time 259200; option dhcp-message-type 5; option dhcp-server-identifier 172.17.61.25; option dhcp-renewal-time 129600; option dhcp-rebinding-time 226800; renew 2 1998/11/10 20:40:11; rebind 3 1998/11/11 23:40:11; expire 4 1998/11/12 08:40:11; } Doug White wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Eric Hodel wrote: > > > Whenever I ping my IP address (172.17.25.238) I get the following: > > > > Nov 4 22:51:49 erich /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 127.0.0.1 > > > > I've poked around in the mailing list archives and found that it has something > > to do with routing, but I never could figure out how to fix it. > > No, you probably changed the netmask on the loopback interface. > > I'd like to see 'ifconfig -a'. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message