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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:29:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bob Badaracco <rjb@typeline.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: arp table weirdness...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161428410.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35ABA0A7.2D6A1987@typeline.com>

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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Bob Badaracco wrote:

> A few months back I entered an alias for an IP address that pointed to a
> virtual
> host on my FBSD 2.2.5 box. The host had it's domain name entered into
> our DNS
> which is on another machine. After deleting the ifconfig and DNS
> entries, the domain name
> still appears in the arp and routing tables. The route is removed when I
> issue the 'route delete hostname' command but reappears when qpopper is
> executed as a result of checking mail
> via a Netscape client. qpopper complains with: Client address "x.x.x.x"
> not listed for it's host
> name "bogusname.com".
> 
> Can anyone explain what's going on and a possible fix?

Perhaps the client is now using the previously aliased IP address?

make sure the address is gone in ifconfig <interface> ... 

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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