IP Address 255.255.255.255

Question

We are having IP problems with a number of production servers running
Netware 6.5 sp3 (very slow responses and dropped packets with a couple of
hundred pings) and wonder whether it is related to a strange line on the
console screen during bootup, reporting unable to resolve 255.255.255.255
to a host name.
I have checked Inetcfg and the broadcast address isn't configured to any
card. Where else should I look to find the spurious record and change it to
the correct value?
Extract from Console.log:
Loading Module SAS.NLM [ OK ]
Loading Module PKI.NLM [ OK ]
Loading Module HTTPSTK.NLM [ OK ]
Loading Module NILE.NLM [ OK ]
Auto-Loading Module NWUTIL.NLM [ OK ]
Auto-Loading Module PKIAPI.NLM [ OK ]
Loading Module PORTAL.NLM [ OK ]
DNS resolving name for correct ip address --> correct.host.domain
DNS resolving name for 255.255.255.255 --> DNS Name not available
Loading Module NDSIMON.NLM [ OK ]
Auto-Loading Module LANGMANI.NLM [ OK ]
Auto-Loading Module XI18N.NLM [ OK ]
Loading Module NLSLSP.NLM [NOTMULTIPLE]
Loading Module NLDAP.NLM [ OK ]
Loading Module SLPDA.NLM [ OK ]
Loading Module LBURP.NLM [ OK ]
Anthony

Answer 1

Andrew,
I'm having the exact same problem (now) and was sorry to find that none of the proposed solutions worked in my case.
I think it's a problem in SLP. My server has two NIC's, one on 10.0.0.250 , my internal network and one on 192.168.0.1 for outgoing internet traffic.
I want SLP to bind to 10.0.0.250, but it always binds to 192.168.0.1
display slp da gives:
slp loopback v2 active dide-scope iana
10.0.0.250 v? inactive 'unknown scope' static
192.168.0.1 v1 active dide-scope static
in Console.log :
DNS resolving name for 10.0.0.250 --> server.ikz.nl
DNS resolving name for 255.255.255.255 --> DNS Name not available
and:
1-03-2009 16:31:04 : SLP-2.13-0
SLP activated v2 DA SLP LOOPBACK
1-03-2009 16:31:04 : SLP-2.13-0
SLP registered DA: 10.0.0.250
1-03-2009 16:31:04 : SLP-2.13-0
SLP disabled dynamic discovery due to DHCP or static discovery.
1-03-2009 16:31:04 : SLP-2.13-0
SLP registered DA: 192.168.0.1
1-03-2009 16:31:04 : SLP-2.13-0
SLP disabled dynamic discovery due to DHCP or static discovery.
1-03-2009 16:31:08 : SLP-2.13-0
SLP Activate DA FAILED for v2 DA "192.168.0.1" which returned a different address of "10.0.0.250".
1-03-2009 16:31:08 : SLP-2.13-0
SLP activated v1 DA 192.168.0.1
In NRM, under managed server list, there are two entries for SERVER (my server name)
1: http://255.255.255.255:8008/
2. http://server.ikz.nl:8008/
and as i'm also having slow login problems, someone pointed me to SLP configuration problems.
Do you have any suggestions? Many thanks!
Louis van der Heijden
system manager IKZ