Try checking with mediaone.net -- I assume it's your ISP. nslookup gave me the following about the IP in question:

65.96.243.127 Server: xxxxxxx.xxxxx.xxx Address: 10.64.5.1

Name: h000094c60950.ne.mediaone.net Address: 65.96.243.127 On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Stan Koper wrote:

I posted an earlier message about a flood of "Martian Destination" messages in my logs

For example,

May 21 06:25:07 alembic kernel: NET: 9 messages suppressed. May 21 06:25:07 alembic kernel: martian destination 00000000 from b5f26041, dev eth0 May 21 06:25:07 alembic kernel: martian destination 00000000 from a7f36041, dev eth0 May 21 06:25:07 alembic kernel: martian destination 00000000 from 7ff36041, dev eth0 May 21 06:25:08 alembic last message repeated 4 times

Two of the addresses dropped off, but 7ff36041 keeps on chugging away. Day after day, every ten minutes, twenty-four hours a day, "martian destination 00000000 from 7ff36041" appears in my logs.

I believe 7ff36041 calculates to 65.96.243.127, so I pinged that address, and this is what I got:

PING 65.96.243.127 (65.96.243.127): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 65.96.243.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=4.395 ms 64 bytes from 65.96.243.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=9.195 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 65.96.243.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=17.675 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 65.96.243.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=31.808 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 65.96.243.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=84.928 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 65.96.243.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=171.426 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 65.96.243.127: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=370.675 ms (DUP!)

And so on. From what I understand, this suggests that 65.96.243.127 is actually using *my* IP address (65.96.240.72) somewhere on his machine. But I don't know for sure.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Stan Koper