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Subject: Re: -current & "Connection attempt to..." console messages? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 20:16:53 -0700
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>> >	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".
>>
>	So something like ftpd/identd that has to be started up by inetd each
>time?

   No, not if inetd is listening on the port.

-DG

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