From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 3 6:44:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hq1.tyfon.net (hq1.tyfon.net [217.27.162.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE43F37B725 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 06:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dl@tyfon.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hq1.tyfon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26551C7BF; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:44:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hq1.tyfon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272511C7B6; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:44:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:44:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Dan Larsson To: Kenneth W Cochran Cc: Subject: Re: Strange localhost NS look attempts In-Reply-To: <200104031338.JAA16296@world.std.com> Message-ID: <20010403154105.W30910-100000@hq1.tyfon.net> Organization: Tyfon Svenska AB X-NCC-NIC: DL1999-RIPE X-NCC-RegID: se.tyfon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by hq1.tyfon.net Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: | Hello -stable: | | Can someone tell me why I keep getting log-messages like this? | It sometimes seems to "break" Netscape (waiting trying to | resolve localhost). I'm using a "dummy" hostname of | "myname.my.domain." This has been happening for *months* with | no (or not much?) ill-effect, but I would like to clean that | up if possible & there must be something I'm not quite getting | right for config... What is happening here? It appears that | I am rejecting a UDP DNS query from "myself." (?) What | might/would be a Good & Proper Way To Fix This? | | Oh, I'm running 4.3-RC as of (cvsupped/built) 1 April 2001. | Other information on request I guess... | | Many thanks, As it looks you have turned on LOG_IN_VAIN, check if either of these are set: sysctl net.inet.udp.log_in_vain sysctl net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain and your /etc/rc.conf /etc/defaults/rc.conf for log_in_vain="YES" | Regards +------ Dan Larsson | Tel: +46 8 550 120 21 Tyfon Svenska AB | Fax: +46 8 550 120 02 GPG and PGP keys | finger dl@hq1.tyfon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message