Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:51:30 +0300 (EEST) From: "Johan Paul" <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> To: "Ruben de Groot" <mail23@bzerk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct syntax for ipfw to allow local traffic? Message-ID: <3376.193.166.135.194.1061988690.squirrel@silakka.nettikala.fi> In-Reply-To: <20030827124551.GA56616@ei.bzerk.org> References: <2676.193.166.135.194.1061983372.squirrel@silakka.nettikala.fi> <003601c36c91$2eb13910$2401010a@zone3000.net> <20030827124551.GA56616@ei.bzerk.org>
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>> /sbin/ipfw -q add 00001 allow ip from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 via lo0 > > This won't help. He allready allows "any to any via lo0". > Anyway, it's not the firewall logging these "Connection attempt to" lines > to /var/log/messages. What happens here is some proces tries to make a > connection on a port where no other proces is listening. There can be many > reasons for this. If you don't want to see these messages anymore put the > line > > net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=0 > > in /etc/sysctl.conf Aah, thanks!! I thought of this myself too after I noticed that the above line didn't work either. The port 2000 that the process tries to connect to is, I think, the Sieve port. I am not running Sieve which would explain the situation. Well, it seems that the firewall is working properly after all which is the most important thing. > > Ruben -- Johan
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