arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

[Derek Ragona]

At 06:22 AM 5/14/2008, Christer Solskogen wrote:
>Derek Ragona wrote:
>
>>Yes aliases should have a netmask of 255.255.255.255
>
>Still no go.
>192.168.0.255 is showing up in "arp -a" and netstat -rn. (and the 
>"arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network" in /var/log/messages)
>
>nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=18b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
>         ether 00:18:f3:29:d8:15
>         inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.0.4
>         inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.0.5
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
>         status: active
>
>Anything else that might explain this kind of behavior?
>
>--
>chs

I would do a traceroute from all your hosts there.  When you do keep an eye 
out for the arp error message.  This should help find the host causing 
these errors and then look at that systems configuration.

Also do you have more than one ethernet interface in the system showing the 
arp errors?  If you do, make sure the interfaces are on different subnets.

         -Derek

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