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Subject: Re: named timeouts 
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:11:01 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <19990615194828.ZOVN93999.mta1-rme@wocker> "Dan Langille" writes:
: On my main machine, which is also running named, the daily security check 
: always has lots of these types of entries.  Typically there are about 50 a 
: day.  I think it's because a dns request has been started, but by the time 
: the reply arrives, the firewall has terminated that port connection (I'm 
: running ipfilter).

I've seen similar messages, and I'm not running ipfilter.  These are
caused by answers arriving after the DNS client has timed out.  I just 
ignore the 20 or so I get each day.

Warner


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