Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:54:14 +1100 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> To: Charlie Schluting <charlie@schluting.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS access on private (RFC 1918) network Message-ID: <20040121055414.GA8771@madras.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <400E1113.5020806@schluting.com> References: <200401201537.KAA16833502@shell.TheWorld.com> <400E1113.5020806@schluting.com>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:41:39PM -0800, Charlie Schluting wrote: > Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > > >Hello: > > > >I get messages like the following in my syslog all the time: > > > >Jan 20 09:00:40 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to > >UDP 192.168.0.1:1990 from 192.168.0.1:53 > >Jan 20 09:02:48 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to > >UDP 192.168.0.1:2052 from 192.168.0.1:53 > > WOW! Someone else with this problem! > Its doing this because you're logging connection attempts to ports that > aren't listening. I don't know why the attempts happens. I get hundreds > of these a day: > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:50675 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:54731 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:54730 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:54807 from 127.0.0.1:53 > > Strangely enough, mine are all to -> from locahost. Possibly because > this box has a real address? udp:53 is DNS. Maybe your apps are looking a named on your machine... Just my newbie guess. Gautam
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