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From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on arplookup and other please
Date: 19 Oct 1995 22:55:55 GMT
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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In article <450l5s$h3a@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>,
Jack Kwong <chkwong@cs.cuhk.hk> wrote:
>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

Whose IP address?  The site you are connecting to?

If you run "tcpdump arp" while the kernel is printing these messages, what
do you see?

  Bill