problem, is it bind related?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <0.b2cab7ca.252e5f03 at aol.com>,  <S0LARlSTEK at aol.com> wrote:
>I have 4 physical servers on line.  3 of them are pentium boxes running 
>solaris 7.  The other is an ULTRA 2 which has solaris 2.6 bind 4.9.X although 
>it is not being used as a nameserver.  The 2 name servers have solaris 7 and 
>bind 8.1.2.  When I ping any of these pentium boxes from a DOS or UNIX 
>machine the ping looks good.  If I ping the ULTRA 2 from DOS it looks good.  
>If I ping it from another UNIX box I get a message that says DUP!.  If you 
>ping 216.32.58.8 you will see the problem.
>
>Does anyone have a fix for this type of problem or know someone who does.

Since responding to a ping makes absolutely no use of DNS (it's done by the
IP stack immediately) there's no way that duplicate responses can be
BIND-related.

This is more likely a routing or switching problem -- something is
duplicating the ping packets.

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