Re: ifaliases and netstat

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@sefl.satelnet.org>]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Matthew Patton wrote:

> I thought I understood how ifaliases worked. Try as I might I can't get
> beyond a SIOCTL error when I attempt it. On one box (Feb -current) I tried
> it and it went bonkers. Instead of aliasing the interface it thought the
> primary ip for that interface was itself, but with a twist. It made the IP
> address 1 greater than what I told it. eg) 170 became 171.
> 
> On a different box (2.3 release but not a fresh install) netstat -a hangs
> after it get's thru listing the ports open by inetd. (yes brand new kernel)
> 
> Does anyone have some ideas?
> 
> 
Sounds like it's doing DNS lookups, try netstat -an


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