Re: My continuing netboot problems

[Erno Palonheimo <esp%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 11:06 -0400, Nigel Johnson wrote:

> Now I get a new output from wireshark:
> 
> 11    1902.418773061    Sagemcom_03:3c:20    Broadcast    ARP   
> 60   
> Who has 192.168.2.30? Tell 192.168.2.1
> 12    1902.420733167    Dec_04:fd:07    Sagemcom_03:3c:20    ARP   
> 60    192.168.2.30 is at 08:00:2b:04:fd:07 (the microVAX MAC address)
> 13    1974.207263126    192.168.2.30    192.168.2.1    DNS    84   
> Standard query 0x319e PTR 1.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa
> 14    1974.208789432    192.168.2.1    192.168.2.30    DNS    107   
> Standard query response 0x319e PTR 1.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa PTR
> mynetwork
> 
> when I type ping 192.168.2.1 on the microVAX console!  My question is
> why would it issue a DNS lookup when I am using a hard-coded private
> I{P
> address?

It is trying to resolve the hostname to print it out. Try ping -n to
make it not do that.

-e