From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 0:27:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oxe.cs.umu.se (oxe.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7531237B404 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:27:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from bark (rfc1413 says tdv94ped@bark.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.185]) by oxe.cs.umu.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12957; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:27:37 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:27:37 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund To: joshua Cc: Subject: Re: [Log in vain: DNS] In-Reply-To: <20020312010021.17923.qmail@uwdvg008.cms.usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Paul Everlund wrote: > > Hi! > > > > In my message file I get a lot of these messages: > > Mar 9 20:12:40 fw /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 213.64.164.27:1346 > from > > > 10.0.0.1:53 > > Mar 9 20:12:44 fw /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 213.64.164.27:1347 > from > > > 10.0.0.2:53 > > My IPFW is set up to allow UDP port 53 both in and out. > > > > As it is logged in vain, trying to connect to a port that is not open, then > no > > program or daemon has made a query. Am I correct? And if this is the case, > why > > are the DNS trying to connect to me for no reason? > > > > Thanks in advance for an answer! > > > > Best regards, > > Paul > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, joshua wrote: > 1346/udp Alta Analytics License Manager > 1347/udp multi media conferencing > > doesn't look like a dns request to me Port 53 is DNS, so the DNS I use is calling me, and the portnumbers are > 1024 and rising, so it's not my computer requesting, but the DNS trying to connect to me. /Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message