Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:31:37 -0400 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) Message-ID: <20010803123137.A271@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108031426260.61259-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>; from gavin@ury.york.ac.uk on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:32:09PM %2B0100 References: <20010803021033.57267.qmail@web13301.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108031426260.61259-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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