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  2. Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
  3. Subject: FWD: RE: mult show/arp
  4. Message-ID: <930121082608.44a001b0@code-z.tgv.com>
  5. From: mcmahon@TGV.COM (Midnight at U Street Metro Station)
  6. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 08:26:08 PST
  7. Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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  10.  
  11. (sent to info-multinet-relay by mistake)
  12.  
  13. > From info-multinet-relay@TGV.COM Thu Jan 21 08:56:03 1993
  14. > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 08:56:02 CST
  15. > From: info-multinet-relay@TGV.COM
  16. > Content-Length: 1271
  17. > 
  18. > Here is a typical (abridged) output from MULT SHOW/ARP on my main server:
  19. > 
  20. > >MultiNet ARP table:
  21. > >Host Network Address                   Ethernet Address    Arp Flags
  22. > >--------------------                   ----------------    ---------
  23. > >[UNKNOWN] (IP 142.76.1.204)            00:00:C0:AE:95:58   Temporary
  24. > >[UNKNOWN] (IP 142.76.1.193)            00:00:C0:A6:94:58   Temporary
  25. > >ROBIN.SUNNYBROOK.UTORONTO.CA (IP 142.  AA:00:04:00:68:F0   Temporary
  26. > >SRRTR.SUNNYBROOK.UTORONTO.CA (IP 142.  AA:00:04:00:7D:F0   Temporary
  27. > >SRPC12.SUNNYBROOK.UTORONTO.CA (IP 142  00:00:C0:9B:25:1C   Temporary
  28. > >SRPC16.SUNNYBROOK.UTORONTO.CA (IP 142  00:00:C0:90:1A:2B   Temporary
  29. > >[UNKNOWN] (IP 142.76.1.194)            00:00:C0:44:94:58   Temporary
  30. > ...etc
  31. > 
  32. > All of the [UNKNOWN] addresses are in fact perfectly well known, and are
  33. > decoded properly when I do MULT NSLOOK/TY=PTR xx.1.76.142.IN-ADDR.ARPA. So
  34. > how come SHOW/ARP isn't decoding them?  Is this a real problem or nothing to
  35. > worry about?  It doesn't really bug me, although it WOULD be useful if
  36. > [UNKNOWN] flagged, at a glance, hosts which really weren't in the DNS,
  37. > 'cause that would mean I'd misconfigured something. 
  38. > 
  39. > Thanks,
  40. Try the following command:
  41.         multinet show/arp/sym=name
  42.  
  43. This lets the domain nameserver translate the unknowns to the proper name.
  44.  
  45. Regards,
  46. Ron
  47. > 
  48. > Chip Campbell
  49. > Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (University of Toronto)
  50. > syschip@srcl.sunnybrook.utoronto.ca
  51. > 
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