On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:46:58 +0200, Kim Onnel proclaimed...

> I ran tcpdump and got the below:
> 
> 19:29:58.871915 fe80::20c:76ff:fe98:e72c > ff02::1:ff00:10: icmp6: neighbor
> sol: who has a.dns.br
> 19:29:58.911884 fe80::20c:76ff:fe98:e72c > ff02::1:ff00:13: icmp6: neighbor
> sol: who has ns-ext.isc.org
> 19:29:58.984958 fe80::20c:76ff:fe98:e72c > ff02::1:ff00:1: icmp6: neighbor
> sol: who has a.dns.jp
> 19:29:58.986874 fe80::20c:76ff:fe98:e72c > ff02::1:ff00:83: icmp6: neighbor
> sol: who has 2001:630:181:35::83

[...]

> Any explanation

In the ipv6 world, neighbor solicitations are much like arp requests. Most
likely you're getting a AAAA record returned in DNS queries for some of the
root servers.

It's good that your machine is doing it; it means things are functioning
normally.

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