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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Tarc <tarc@tarc.po.cs.msu.su>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem with TCP/IP stack?
Message-ID:  <20050610083517.P42933@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050610102829.GA44456@tarc.po.cs.msu.su>
References:  <20050607172121.84552.qmail@web80606.mail.yahoo.com> <20050609172640.GA23269@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> <20050609135335.Q42933@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <20050610102829.GA44456@tarc.po.cs.msu.su>

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On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Tarc wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:58:50PM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Tarc wrote:
>>
>>> I have recompilled kernel and world, reboot and after enabling
>>> 'log_in_vain' options see in logs a lot of following lines(with different
>>> IPs). What happines? Is this is kernel or ocaml/mldonkey problem?
>>> Connection attempt to TCP 158.250.16.33:60099 from 84.109.91.22:4662
>>> flags:0x12
>>
>> That means that a connection attempt was made to local (presumably) port
>> 60099 from host 84.109.91.22 using remote port 4662.
>
> Thanks, I know it.
>
>> log_in_vain is
>> designed to spam the system log with these kinds of messages.
>
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf said in comment for 'log_in_vain '">=1 to log connects to ports w/o listeners."
> so it's documentation bug?

No, sir. What you saw logged is exactly what is documented.

Andy

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