In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone shed some light on why I am seeing occasional lookups like > these? (the key is the client is 127.0.0.1 - localhost) > > 27-Sep-2008 5:56:55.851 client 127.0.0.1#3068: query: 1.0.0.127.in- > addr.arpa IN PTR + > 27-Sep-2008 5:56:55.851 client 127.0.0.1#3069: query: gmx.us IN A + > 27-Sep-2008 5:56:56.242 client 127.0.0.1#3070: query: 1.0.0.127.in- > addr.arpa IN PTR + > 27-Sep-2008 5:56:56.242 client 127.0.0.1#3071: query: gmx.us IN MX + > > AFAIAA I don't have any clients running on the box that would address the > DNS server at a local host level - they are all seen connecting by their > respective IP addresses. My googles on this, as you can imagine, have not > given much use with a search string like '127.0.0.1' :-) I assume that you don't have nameserver 127.0.0.1 in the machine's /etc/resolv.conf. > > It's a few every day, always the same lookups, differing times. Maybe there's a shell script that does these lookups and has the server 127.0.0.1 hard-coded into it. -- Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
