bind and arp

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9l17su$q2s at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Joseph Fannin  <jhf at rivenstone.net> wrote:
>    I upgraded to bind 9.1.3 from 9.1.0 today, and now I'm seeing a
>problem similar to the one Piet Pelz is describing in the thread
>'named is causing severe traffic'.  For some reason, the named on my
>gateway machine is doing a reverse lookup for every arp
>broadcast it recieves from the entire cable modem network it's
>connected to.  None of these requests are even for my own IP; they
>usually originate from one of my ISP's machines are are inquiring
>about other addresses on the ISP's network:

Try using the -n option to tcpdump.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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