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Date:      Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:48:11 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        Edirol <edirol@anime.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel log messages
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910192045570.84739-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000501bf1a08$fb13c2a0$0300a8c0@anime.ca>

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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Edirol wrote:

>I've been getting this message logged a few times since I enabled:
>
>sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1
>sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1

This says do lots of logging.

>Oct 19 03:51:30 schala /kernel.old: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512
>from 127.0.0.1:1310
>Oct 19 03:58:59 schala /kernel.old: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512
>from 127.0.0.1:1319
>Oct 19 04:00:19 schala /kernel.old: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512
>from 127.0.0.1:1383

biff		512/udp	   comsat	#used by mail system to notify users
#					of new mail received; currently
#					receives messages only from
#					processes on the same machine

From /etc/services. It looks like biff is trying to tell you something.

Thank You, 	| http://students.washington.edu/jcwells
Jason Wells	| "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither
		| freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin



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