From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 7 19:57:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA23184 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA23179 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id WAA16914; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id WAA15838; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:57:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 22:57:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: davidg@Root.COM, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , dob@nasvr1.cb.att.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current & "Connection attempt to..." console messages? In-Reply-To: <6550.828917088@critter.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > The option to do non-existent port logging was recently added and defaults > > to on. I think it should default to off. In any case, it is controlled with a > > sysctl variable (I forget which one - do a sysctl -a). > > I'm open to input on this, I just left it on as default to make sure there > would be a discussion :-) > What is meant by "non-existent port" logging? What is a "non-existent port"? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc