Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:53:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kevin Keyser <keyser@clio.rice.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netstat -i for lo0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970926235126.15854J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9709270102.AA04983@clio.rice.edu>
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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Kevin Keyser wrote: > I have been seeing some strange behavior in my "netstat -i" numbers > for the loopback. Each time I run "netstat -i", ipkts and opkts are > incremented by 48. Note that it does not matter how long or short I > wait between invocations; the change is always 48, like running > netstat causes it. In the example below, the machine is otherwise > *very* idle, no cron jobs other than the install defaults, and is > the only node up on my net. I bet those added packets come from DNS lookups for `nova', `your-net' and `localhost'. Try running netstat -in instead, which disables the lookups. Note that the totals don't change. I get the same behavior but I do a DNS lookup to a server instead of to the localhost. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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