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From: James Robinson <james@hermes.cybernetics.net>
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Subject: "who" datagram port
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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 11:22:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Why would my named be trying to contact a non-named running machine at
it's 'who' port tenaciously, getting an ICMP port unreachable each
time [ok -- I know why it would get the port unreachable, I'm just
curious as to why he's been driven to query].


James, whose ppp line never hangs up due to this periodic query.


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