From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 18:25:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6D537B491 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=DENDENNIS) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14QKHt-0004sw-00; Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:24:53 +1300 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Chris Angell" Cc: Subject: RE: DNS Question Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:27:16 +1300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ports 42 TCP/UDP were used by an older name server protocol than DNS (which uses 53 UDP/TCP). IEN 116, written by the late Jon Postel, if you want to look it up. The sockstat and netstat commands (e.g netstat -a | grep LISTEN) should tell you if something's listening on that port or not. -- Juha :-? -----Original Message----- :-? From: Chris Angell [mailto:root@chrisangell.com] :-? Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:08 PM :-? To: Juha Saarinen :-? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :-? Subject: RE: DNS Question :-? :-? :-? Do you know what runs on port 42 then? It says: :-? :-? nameserver 42/tcp Host Name Server :-? nameserver 42/udp Host Name Server :-? :-? In the well known ports file. :-? :-? Chris Angell :-? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message