[43970] in Hotline Meeting
Case 114061: problem with IP address used by another host
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Braun)
Thu Jun 25 20:49:13 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:49:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, computing-help@MIT.EDU, petros@MIT.EDU
Cc: network@MIT.EDU
It seems that someone (possible in room 1-250) had their computer configured
to use your IP Address.
We have disabled the network drop of the offending host, if you have further
problems of this sort, please send mail to computing-help@mit.edu.
Thanks,
Matt Braun
MIT Network Operations
netp ref: REP-E158 2/4
>the last 3-4 days someone is using my IP address
>and I have warnings pop-up all the time on my screen.
>
>The message says:
>"10:20 ALERT: arp: host with ethernet address 00:c0:7b:7c:91:b4
>is using my IP address 18.58.1.27!"
>
>Is there any way to find out what is causing the problem
>and fix it? (My machine is stymie@mit.edu)
