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Re:Curious case of Martian traffic in Linux by gumby on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:58AM (#35883789)
It’s an argument to sysctl, for example, which could confuse someone on earth trying to configure something far away.

> sudo sysctl net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians=1

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Re:Curious case of Martian traffic in Linux by kadoban on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:27PM (#35893769)
sysctl is kernel parameters though, right? I just can't imagine being confused by that, it's too divorced from anything that would care what planet it's on.
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