From: Bob Booth - CITES (booth@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 13:42:39 EST
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:16:14AM -0800, Sue Pellerito wrote:
> Can any of you experts explain what these log entries refer to in my syslog
> output?
>
> Mar 24 10:08:13 mango1 bootpd[30842]: IP address not found: 10.100.135.122
> Mar 24 10:08:18 mango1 last message repeated 8 times
>
> They go on and on for multiple addresses. However, when I run nslookup the
> address resolves correctly, and when I ping it responds as well. This is a
> server running Domino/Lotus Notes. My nic card (GB) is showing heavy
> usage. Several people were 'hung' this morning and needed to reboot their
> client workstations.
Your machine mango1 is running a bootp daemon. Everytime it gets a bootp
packet, it checks a file called /etc/bootptab. The error is coming from the
fact that the adresses don't exist in that file (on mango1).
bob
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