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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.willamette.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help on arplookup and other please Date: 08 Oct 1995 02:15:28 -0700 Organization: gun runner Lines: 14 Sender: nawaz921@kootenai.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imohvs72vj.fsf@kootenai.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <450l5s$h3a@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: kootenai.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: chkwong@cs.cuhk.hk's message of 5 Oct 1995 13:05:00 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.13 In article <450l5s$h3a@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> chkwong@cs.cuhk.hk (Jack Kwong) writes: $ 1. Every time I try to telnet or ftp to a site, the following appears: $ $ [hostname] kernel: arplookup failed [ip address]: host is not on $ local network Hmm. I used to see that on bootup for about two weeks. I asked the local network people, and it turned out that some machine on a different subnet was broadcasting arp stuff (it was misconfigured). Perhaps that might help?