BBLISA: Bizarre network/routing problem

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Jeez; that sort of thing really makes you paranoid, doesn't
it?   Maybe the machine realized what you were doing to it,
and decided on one last try at making your life miserable.

| On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, John Abreau wrote:
|
| The problem turned out to be a bad arp entry in the router at the
| colocation site. The ip address of the problem machine had been used as
| an ip alias on another server a couple years ago to test something, long
| before my time here, and whoever set it up neglected to remove its
| configuration.
|
| We were decommissioning that machine last night, and apparently it was
| rebooted prior to shutting it down and pulling it out of the rack, just
| long enough to corrupt the router's arp table.
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