FreeBSD 6.0 - Network operations result in <IP> <MASK>: not found?

[David Kirchner]

On 1/26/06, Eli K. Breen <bsd at unixforge.net> wrote:
> re: FreeBSD 6.0 - Network operations result in <IP> <MASK>: not found?
>
> When starting and stopping many network services under a fairly stock
> FreeBSD 6.0 box, I see the following:
>
> ====================
> (Addresses removed)
> root at mistert# /etc/rc.d/named restart
> inet <IP adress 1>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> inet <IP adress 2>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> inet <IP adress 3>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> inet <IP adress 1>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> inet <IP adress 2>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> inet <IP adress 3>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> Stopping named.
> Waiting for PIDS: 406.
> inet <IP adress 1>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> inet <IP adress 2>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> inet <IP adress 3>   netmask 255.255.255.255: not found
> Starting named.
> ====================
>
> Google says nothing.
>
> Any ideas?

I suspect a missing quote mark or pair of quotes in /etc/rc.conf .