From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 17:23:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967D91504C for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA67850; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:49:17 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:49:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: aunty Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange UDP messages Message-ID: <20000106114917.L30038@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000106104533.A22061@comcen.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000106104533.A22061@comcen.com.au> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 6 January 2000 at 10:45:33 +1100, aunty wrote: > Any idea where to start looking for the cause of these? /etc/services. > Jan 6 10:35:49 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4376 > Jan 6 10:35:51 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4391 > Jan 6 10:35:55 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4442 > Jan 6 10:36:03 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4510 > Jan 6 10:36:08 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4553 biff 512/udp comsat #used by mail system to notify users # of new mail received; currently # receives messages only from # processes on the same machine > Jan 6 10:36:16 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:4256 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Jan 6 10:36:17 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:4258 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Jan 6 10:36:21 hostname /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:4261 from 127.0.0.1:53 domain 53/udp #Domain Name Server It's not really clear to me why your name server should want to contact your local host, but maybe there's something in your config which could explain that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message