From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 21:26:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA02297 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02291 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:26:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA17856; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:26:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: pcoyne@br-inc.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS request from unknown process. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 pcoyne@br-inc.com wrote: > I have a problem with a client machines asking my DNS server for an invalid > (the machine name doesn't exist in DNS, nor should it) fully qualified > hostname. The request comes several times a second, any pointers as to > what processes on the client machines I should check first? > > I have grep'ed /etc for the culprit's config files but to no avail, is > there a way to monitor on the client what process is making the call? netstat | grep domain Should show you what's connected to your named daemon. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo