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From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on arplookup and other please
Date: 08 Oct 1995 02:15:28 -0700
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In article <450l5s$h3a@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> chkwong@cs.cuhk.hk (Jack Kwong) writes:

$ 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

Hmm.

I used to see that on bootup for about two weeks.  I asked the local
network people, and it turned out that some machine on a different
subnet was broadcasting arp stuff (it was misconfigured).

Perhaps that might help?