I think that I have found a couple of things that contribute to or produce this error. First, the machine that I am running this on is a FreeBSD machine configured as a bridge with two interfaces, xl0 and xl1. Interface xl0 has an IP number that fits in our internal, non-routable IP structure. This interface is hooked up to the "inside" side of our network. The other interface is hooked up to our router, and hence sees all the "outside" traffic. The bridge machine is between our router and the main switches that connect the rest of our internal network to the Internet. Anything going out from our network to the Internet [and vice versa] has to go through this machine.
I originally had ntop sniffing both xl0 and xl1. Got a slew of the 'host not found, try again' messages on the console, but not in syslog files. [as an aside, I can't get ntop to log to ntop.access.log for the life of me, but that seems to be a different problem]. I then changed my command line to make ntop sniff only the xl0 interface--the one with an IP address. That seemed to help. Also, I did a little tweaking to my /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files to ensure that I wasn't missing anything there. The current status is that I no longer see the messages on the console. However, if I invoke intop, I see them there. Weird. -- Jim Smith _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop
