Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:22:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Weird responses to queso on broadcast address... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008091221590.6173-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v04220809b5b6fd3e69ab@[195.238.1.121]>
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > However, I got some strange stuff logged in /var/log/messages. > In particular, it looks like the machine thinks it saw a large number > of incoming connections from the specified port on the broadcast > address, addressed to a port on the local IP address on which there > was not a process listening. > > > For example, I did[0]: > > $ queso -p 22 123.45.67.63 > > And in /var/log/messages, I saw stuff like: > > Aug 9 13:42:10 sample /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP > 123.45.67.42:10428 from 123.45.67.63:22 You probably have the sysctl 'net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain' enabled so it logs any connection attempts to nonexistent ports. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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