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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
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Subject: Re: -current & "Connection attempt to..." console messages? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Apr 1996 22:57:36 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 19:59:39 -0700
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>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"?

   Ahem. In this case it means "a port for which there is no listener/socket".

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project