syslog: couldn't send reply to 2130706433

[Christian Krackowizer]

At 20:03 01.09.1999 +0200, you wrote:
>>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> writes:
>
>    Ralf> What could be the cause of the following message?  
>    Ralf> Sep 1 15:37:22 XXXXXXXX syslog: couldn't send reply to 2130706433
>    Ralf> Sep 1 15:37:22 XXXXXXXX syslog: couldn't send reply to -2035727767
>
>    Ralf> Pinging 2130706433 results in
>
>    Ralf> # ping 2130706433
>    Ralf> PING 2130706433: 64 byte packets 
>    Ralf> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms 
>    Ralf> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1. time=0. ms
> 
>2130706433 is the decimal representation of IP address 127.0.0.1 so it
>looks as though something could have a problem with reverse lookups of
>the localhost address. Why it prints that as a digit string instead of
>a dotted-decimal is beyond me. I'd guess that -2035727767 (-7956BD97
>in hex) is IP address 249.86.189.151 (F956BD97) printed as a signed
>32-bit integer. So you've probably got something that isn't using
>inet_ntoa() to pretty-print these IP addresses as dotted decimals.
>
>    Ralf> The system is a C200 running HP-UX 10.20.
>
>I think you should ask Mr. Hewlett or Mr. Packard.... :-)
>
>It's too bad you zapped some of the stuff from the logs. Something in
>XXXXXXXX probably identifies the software that's printing IP addresses
>as signed decimal numbers. Or maybe the problem is in the syslog()
>routine in HP-UX if it's not the thing that's calling syslog().
>
>

A month ago, we've installed a C100 with 10.20 fresh out of the box. Added
all available patches for 10.20 (appr. 300 Megs!) and cannot reproduce this.
ping works in all 3 cases a) name b) 127.0.0.1 and c) 2130706433



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