From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 6:54: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794BE37B428 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 06:54:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA08340; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:53:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:53:59 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arplookup failed Message-ID: <20011108095359.B8276@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011108094349.A8209@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tech@squid.tznet.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:48:43AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ah, so much for the easy answer. I wondered how you had a /20 on your local network. :) Are these machines you're trying to hit elsewhere on your network (i.e., past the router)? In that case, is your default route set properly? Do a "netstat -nr" and see. If you have a default router, then run a traceroute and see where it dies. On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:48:43AM -0600, Scott Pilz wrote: > Well, there are some problems with doing this however. > > We don't want/can't have the entire /20 routed to just our main office. We > have POP's all over the state that we will be sooner or later routing the > addresses out to. The last block, being 66.170.79.255 would at that point > be the broadcast -- but it won't even be routed to this router much > longer, so it won't work. > > Any other ideas? > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:31:18AM -0600, Scott Pilz wrote: > > > > > > I've seen many posts on freebsd-questions but no answers that have > > > helped me with this problem. > > > > > > We have recently obtained a new block of address space (66.170.64.1/20). > > > > > > I run around 8-10 FreeBSD machines in the office, every one has the same > > > problem .. . > > > > > > They are on the 66.170.64.x block, netmask of 255.255.255.0. > > > > > > Upon trying to ping another machine -- NT lets say, that has the address > > > of 66.170.68.x, or 65.x, etc. will issue the following error: > > > > > > /kernel: arplookup 66.170.xx.xxx failed: host not on local network. > > > > > > Now, there MUST be a way to easily fix this. I'm sure it's just a > > > configuration problem, please advise. > > > > You need to fix your netmask. You have a netmask of /20, yet your > > machines are set to /24. > > > > The error means exactly what it says: 66.170.68.xx is not on the local > > network. > > > > Set your netmask to /20, and it will just work. > > > > > > -- > > Michael Lucas > > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org > > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > > Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message