From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 21:59:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pro.fais.net (unknown [208.249.141.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07F3D37B4CF for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:59:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from drnet.fais.net (root@drnet.fais.net [208.249.141.31]) by pro.fais.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id AAA00296; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 00:46:06 -0600 Received: from wks01 (wks01.drnet.fais.net [10.64.80.10]) by drnet.fais.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eAQNtv729706; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:56:07 GMT (envelope-from jwpauler@jwpages.com) Message-ID: <000f01c05836$7700e700$0a50400a@drnet.fais.net> From: "Justin W. Pauler" To: "Ryan Breding" , References: Subject: Re: UDP Connections to port 512 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:53:58 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan, Biff, from my understanding, is simply the notice you recieve that says you have new e-mail when you receive e-mail. I have yet to see it running, but I am not usually around to see it. I personally have it blocked off via ipfirewall and haven't seen a problem yet. -jwp Justin W. Pauler (drnet) E-Mail: jwpauler@jwpages.com ICQ: 95989631 IRC: Undernet IRC Network ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Breding" To: Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:44 PM Subject: UDP Connections to port 512 > I keep getting these messages in the /var/log/message output: > > Nov 25 15:12:30 drizzle /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:2844 > Nov 25 15:13:54 drizzle /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:2851 > > > I have checked on the UDP connections to port 512 and it seems that it is > "biff". Is there a setting to turn biff off or am I on the wrong trail > ? I dont see biff running in the process list. > > > Thanks > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message