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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!parc!fenner From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help on arplookup and other please Date: 19 Oct 1995 22:55:55 GMT Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Lines: 13 Message-ID: <466l1s$d6c@news.parc.xerox.com> References: <450l5s$h3a@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> NNTP-Posting-Host: crevenia.parc.xerox.com In article <450l5s$h3a@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>, Jack Kwong <chkwong@cs.cuhk.hk> wrote: >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 Whose IP address? The site you are connecting to? If you run "tcpdump arp" while the kernel is printing these messages, what do you see? Bill