Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:50:51 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why these connections from 127.0.0.1? Message-ID: <20041202094853.Q66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <20041202123606.GA50028@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20041202123606.GA50028@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out why these messages are showing up: > > neptune kernel log messages: > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:3746 flags:0x02 > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:2058 flags:0x02 > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4293 > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4864 > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:1972 flags:0x02 > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:3859 > > I thought my firewall was allowing loopback traffic. They look like "log in vain" entries. to you have log in vain enabled? 113/tcp is identd and 512/udp is biff. My guess is your mail system is generating those requests and log in vain logs them. Fer
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