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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:16:03 -0600
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@messagingdirect.com>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What does this mean and how do I stop it ?
Message-ID:  <144260000.964466163@gollum.esys.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20000724192915.Z24476@speedy.gsinet>

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--On 07/24/00 19:29:15 +0200 Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> 
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:56 +1000, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
>>
>> These entries appear frequently in the daily security report of
>> a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE machine (Bind 8.2.x)
>>
>> > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:2343 from 127.0.0.1:53
>
> I don't care if everybody's telling you it's DNS *lookup* -- I
> feel this is something different, since it's going *from* port 53
> *to* something random(?).

If you have 'nameservers 127.0.0.1' in /etc/resolv.conf then this is 
probably named answering a DNS lookup request from a local process.

--lyndon


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