Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 21:28:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Dennis Tenn <dstenn@fanfic.org> To: "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org> Cc: "'Dima Dorfman'" <dima@zwb.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Somewhat off-topic: Port 54 DNS Queries??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980518212545.509G-100000@fanfic.org> In-Reply-To: <01BD8248.90CB9840@w3svcs.mfn.org>
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, J.A. Terranson wrote:
| I *know*, that's why I'm asking! It appears (from several replies)
| that these packets *might* be from misconfigured Novell systems (who
| use XNS as the basis for their own auth schemes)...
|
| > We have recently been rejecting a *ton* of udp packets from port 54
| > that purport to be DNS queries. Does anyone know what's going on
| > here?
By the sounds of it you have logging on for that port. If this is the
case get the IP, track it down and email the Administrator of their
network. Find out if they're doing something different. I know that with
bind 8 you can specify ports for DNS and they might be using the wrong
one. Hooray for IPFW.
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