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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc: ADiNA <ad1na@yahoo.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Also weird packet (Was: weird packet ... anyone)
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There's no such thing as a real UDP "connect" - what's happening
is that the server is taking longer to respond than the requester
is waiting, so the socket for the request source port is no longer
open, and you have UDP log-in-vain turned on.

Barney Wolff

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:32:09PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> Doesn't really belong in stable, but...
> 
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, ADiNA wrote:
> 
> > while i have the same condition as Vlad, it did not stopped there. i
> > almost got the message everyday;
> >
> > Connection attempt to UDP 203.106.241.163:1331 from 203.106.241.168:53
> > Connection attempt to UDP 203.106.241.163:1337 from 203.106.241.168:53
> > Connection attempt to UDP 203.106.241.163:1340 from 203.106.241.168:53
> 
> I get the same thing - i believe these are harmless. 203.106.241.168 will
> be your DNS server. Some DNS servers do try to reverse-connect... don't
> know why.

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