From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 22:58:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA25325 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 22:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA25317 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 22:58:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA12309; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:28:17 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971128172817.52318@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:28:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kwoody Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: What lives on port 53? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Kwoody on Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 10:42:21PM -0800 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 10:42:21PM -0800, Kwoody wrote: > > Been trying to figure out what is causing ppp -auto to dial out. After > getting the dns worked out(i think) I see in my ppp.log file that its > my 95 box calling across via UDP from port 137 (specail to windows, read > about it a while back...to do with Samba?) at any rate its goint to my > ISP's main box on port 53. > > Now what lives there such that my win95 box would attempt to contact it? 53 is a DNS lookup. You probably have the ISP set up as primary name server. You can disable autodial selectively--take a look at the tutorial. Greg