Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:52:20 +0100 From: "laurens van alphen" <alphen@craxx.com> To: "Steven Alexander" <steve@cell2000.net> Cc: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: unknown connection attempts from localhost Message-ID: <000501be71d5$08e30120$0a0010ac@ren.craxx.com> In-Reply-To: <000801be7193$b5bf58e0$1502110a@matrice>
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mornin' > It isn't sending UDP packets to random ports. Your logs are showing that a > host was looked up from UDP port 1645/1739 and that yoru DNS replied to > them. my bad, of course there was a lookup from localhost from sourceport 1645 and 1739 first. but since there was clearly no one interested in the return packets (due to timeouts, whatever) i refered to them as 'random'. i will watch my words 7from now on. > The 'connection attempt' is used for a lack of a better term. As UDP > is connectionless, the replies from the DNS server show up as connection > attempts. This is standard behavior when using net.inet.*.log_in_vain=1 did i hear an echo ? ;-) -- laurens van alphen, craxx alphen@craxx.com, http://craxx.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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