Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:21:34 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why these connections from 127.0.0.1? Message-ID: <20041202162134.GA57605@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041202131730.F66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar> References: <20041202123606.GA50028@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20041202094853.Q66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <20041202140601.GA53089@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200412021656.01136.4711@chello.at> <20041202131730.F66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:20:49PM -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote: : In the original case, it seems he is not runing those services. When sendmail : (or whatever mta he's using) tries to make an ident lookup, it fails and : log in vain logs the connection attempt to the closed port (it only logs : attempts to connect to closed ports). Same for biff, something tries : to query biff, the connection is refused because it isn't listening, : log in vain logs it. That simple, I wouldn't worry about it I'm running a local sendmail just to forward root mail to my user account. The rest of my mail comes from remote accounts or POP3. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.
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