Fatal it is!
Jeff
"David S. Miller" wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:23:40 -0700
> From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
>
> I agree with this assessement, however, if the underlying IP stack
> returns errant data, then it could cause the application to
> malfunction, so I would not dismiss looking at what's going on in
> the IP stack so quickly, particularly since there seem to be other
> problems with NT servers related to this problem with ICMP
> requests. At any rate, this is Caldera's problem, since LIZARD is
> their installer. They have the trace and the info, and are looking
> at it.
>
> Look at the trace, they ping the router and then scan the entire
> subnet looking for a DNS server response to "auto-detect" the
> DNS server IP address so they don't have to ask the user for
> such details.
>
> I think the bug is pretty obvious, and fatal in your configuration.
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
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