Weird behavior with -stable

T.J. kniveton at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 22 23:08:52 PST 2004


Good suggestion, and I wish it were that simple.. but I checked before
I put the machine at that IP address, and didn't get any response to
pings. This is a static IP that's supposed to be in a reserved block
(reserved for me). It seems that it's some other problem.... but I will
check this theory in the morning.


--- Gregory Bond <gnb at itga.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Really sounds like there is another machine on the same subnet with
> the same
> (new) IP address, and they are having ARP duels.  Sometimes you get
> machine A,
> sometimes machine B.  When you get A, it works, when you get B, there
> is no
> HTTP/IMAP/ etc daemons listening and the host key is wrong.
> 
> Check the output of "arp -a" on another host and compare that to the
> Ethernet
> address of the problem box....
> 
> 
> 

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