Re: Kernel Panic, Part 2

John Jacq <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quoting David Blomber <[email protected]>:

> 
> > 
> > Does your opinion include the now famous
> >    "martian source"  message????
> > 
> > -- 
> This is actually my favorite annoyance :) I actually overlooked it once
> and a heavily sub-netted network and BAMM I filled var over a weekend
> test.  (boy was my face red come the following Monday) what funnier was
> I knew about it I just forgot to set log_martians to 0. <Did I mention
> that the sub-netting was messed up which caused the problem-now that was
> some-one else's baby>


I thought "martian source" always made perfect sense. It usually refers to 
a "private" ip address coming in from the Internet side of the gateway. Since 
such addresses can't come from the Internet 'cause they simply don't exist, 
they must come from "outer(cyber)space". Don't you think so?
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