From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 16:21:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957AB16A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:21:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yearning.mcc.ac.uk (yearning.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C5C43D48 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:21:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by yearning.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CZti5-0005gc-45; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:21:37 +0000 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) iB2GLZlZ057709; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:21:36 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id iB2GLZdT057708; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:21:35 GMT Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:21:34 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Fernando Gleiser Message-ID: <20041202162134.GA57605@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041202131730.F66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why these connections from 127.0.0.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:21:38 -0000 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.