Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:06:01 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why these connections from 127.0.0.1? Message-ID: <20041202140601.GA53089@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041202094853.Q66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar> References: <20041202123606.GA50028@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20041202094853.Q66254@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:50:51AM -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote: : On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : : > : > I'm trying to figure out why these messages are showing up: : > : > neptune kernel log messages: : > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:3746 flags:0x02 : > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:2058 flags:0x02 : > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4293 : > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:4864 : > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:1972 flags:0x02 : > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:3859 : > : > I thought my firewall was allowing loopback traffic. : : They look like "log in vain" entries. to you have log in vain enabled? I believe so. : 113/tcp is identd and 512/udp is biff. My guess is your mail system is : generating those requests and log in vain logs them. Should I disable log-in-vain or somehow allow these through? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.
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