[7667] in testers
Re: vmware interfaces on linux box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Dec 23 19:25:52 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:53:07 -0500
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On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 14:16 -0500, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> Has anyone else seen these interfaces appear on their
> linux (or sun, I suppose, though I haven't seen it there) boxes?
They're present on men-at-arms. It's possible that the public
workstation cleaner is getting rid of them, which would probably disrupt
VMWare Player from running, so if Andrew could check into that on a test
cluster machine I'd appreciate it.
> I'll note also that the existance of these interfaces interact poorly
> with sendmail, since it tries and fails to reverse-resolve the 192.168
> addresses assigned to them before doing anything, which adds a 40
> second delay.
That's not so good. I'm not immediately sure what we should change.
