On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:41:39PM -0800, Charlie Schluting wrote: > Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > > >Hello: > > > >I get messages like the following in my syslog all the time: > > > >Jan 20 09:00:40 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to > >UDP 192.168.0.1:1990 from 192.168.0.1:53 > >Jan 20 09:02:48 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to > >UDP 192.168.0.1:2052 from 192.168.0.1:53 > > WOW! Someone else with this problem! > Its doing this because you're logging connection attempts to ports that > aren't listening. I don't know why the attempts happens. I get hundreds > of these a day: > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:50675 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:54731 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:54730 from 127.0.0.1:53 > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:54807 from 127.0.0.1:53 > > Strangely enough, mine are all to -> from locahost. Possibly because > this box has a real address?
udp:53 is DNS. Maybe your apps are looking a named on your machine... Just my newbie guess. Gautam _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
