From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 3 7:27:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2CCE37B71C for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:27:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from tully (TULLY.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.132]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f33EQdr03888; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:26:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:26:39 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: Kenneth W Cochran Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange localhost NS look attempts Message-ID: <35830000.986307999@tully> In-Reply-To: <200104031414.KAA13159@world.std.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:14:45 AM -0400, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: +----- | >If we ignore the LOG_IN_VAIN red herring, what's really happening here is | | Are you saying LOG_IN_VAIN is not such a Good Thing? +--->8 No, just that the initial "it's because you have LOG_IN_VAIN turned on" suggested that that was somehow causing the real problem, when in fact it was providing clues about the real problem. (That said, I disabled LOG_IN_VAIN because it's way too chatty; in particular, when I use my laptop on CMU's WaveLAN network it's constantly logging about broadcast packets from Windows machines in the same area.) | Agreed, I think it has more to do with the nameserver. But | maybe Yet Another Netscape Problem? Any idea(s) as to a fix? | Or should I Just Live With It? +--->8 I have no idea. Maybe use tcpdump to find out what it's trying to look up? -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message