arplookup 0.0.0.0 failed: host is not on local network

Christer Solskogen solskogen at carebears.mine.nu
Mon May 12 17:01:36 UTC 2008


Derek Ragona wrote:

> Sounds like you have 0.0.0.0 configured on an ethernet  interface.  I 
> would check all your systems, and be sure it isn't used.
> 

I checked, and there is no interface with that ip address. But thanks 
for the advice.

OpenBSD box - where 0.0.0.0 is resolving to.
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         lladdr 00:01:c0:03:7c:09
         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
         status: active
         inet6 fe80::201:c0ff:fe03:7c09%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

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 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
         inet 192.168.0.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex,flag0,flag1>)
         status: active


(I also have a Mac OX 10.5 which also resolves 0.0.0.0 to 192.168.0.1. 
But a windows machine do not resolve 0.0.0.0)

-- 
chs



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