Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:33:04 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some 5.0 oddities Message-ID: <20030118152026.G44614-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030118044448.GA9561@gothmog.gr>
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> > 1/ Everytime I ssh to the box there are 4 connection attempts to UDP
> > port 53 from itself. ie:
> >
> > Jan 18 12:45:17 <kern.info> team2 kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 172.22.2.12:53 from 172.22.2.12:49205
> > Jan 18 12:45:17 <kern.info> team2 kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 172.22.2.12:53 from 172.22.2.12:49206
> > Jan 18 12:45:17 <kern.info> team2 kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 172.22.2.12:53 from 172.22.2.12:49207
> > Jan 18 12:45:17 <kern.info> team2 kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 172.22.2.12:53 from 172.22.2.12:49208
> >
> > I have log_in_vain="1" and /etc/resolv.conf points to 172.22.2.1 only.
>
> Is there any case 172.22.2.1 redirects DNS queries back to 172.22.2.22
> for some subdomain that it believes 172.22.2.22 is more fit to reply
> for? What is the setup of 172.22.2.1?
>
No.
172.22.2.1 is authorative for 172.22.2/24 and will only forward requests
upstream.
> > 2/ The console doesn't "wake up" if its in screensaver mode (I use
> > warp_saver.ko) when messages are sent to it (like the ones above).
>
> This is a result of th following sysctl:
>
> hw.syscons.saver.keybonly: 1
>
> It defaults to 1 so you will have to edit your /etc/sysctl.conf and
> set it to zero to enable the old behavior of syscons.
>
Thanks. One wonders why the old default behaviour was changed though...
> > 3/ 'ps ul' repeats columns: PID, VSZ, RSS, TT, STAT, TIME, COMMAND
> > (hmm, this also happens on 4.7)
>
> I'm not sure about this one. It seems to me that "ps l" prints a lot
> of the information that "ps u" would print already. The repetition is
> most likely a ps bug though.
>
Yes, its a bug - jmallett@freebsd.org has fixed it now.
> > 4/ You can't interrupt the BTX loader anymore. Used to be able to
> > get the ':' prompt before the kernel loaded.
>
> I regularly interrupt my loader at any stage.
> Can you elaborate a bit on this one?
>
When 4.7 boots, the 'propeller' starts spinning, then momentarily stops.
When you press a key, you get a ':' prompt. Otherwise it continues to load
kernel.
I'll have to reboot a box to fully explain, which I cant do right now...
> > 5/ disklabel doesn't work: [...]
>
> ENOCLUE.
>
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Andy Farkas
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