From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 5:44:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.flashnet.it (libra.cyb.it [212.11.95.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4AE37B401 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 05:44:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.flashnet.it (ip215.pool-173.cyb.it [195.191.181.216]) by relay2.flashnet.it (EMS-RELAY/8.10.0) with SMTP id eASDiIq32544 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:44:18 +0100 Message-Id: <200011281344.eASDiIq32544@relay2.flashnet.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Post Road Mailer for OS/2 (Green Edition Ver 3.0) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:44:16 EST From: Andrea Venturoli Reply-To: Andrea Venturoli Subject: Re: UDP Connections to port 512 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ** Reply to note from Cliff Sarginson Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:43:37 +0100 > Mmmm. > Generally speaking you shouldnt really fiddle in /etc/services. > Think of it as a sort of dictionary for applications. > The one to stop biff, as I stated before, is to disable comsat > in inetd.conf. No. This way you disable the server, but the client will still try to "biff" you, and that's exactly why you will get those "Connection attempt" messages. Bye & Thanks av. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message