>Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:36:27 -0800 (PST) >From: Don Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: DNS problem > >On 1 Feb, Kovács Péter wrote: >> Hello, >> >>> Which server in your organization is acting as a DNS >>> server? >> The Windows... >> >>> If you only have one network card in your FreeBSD box... >> Yes, I only have one. >> >>> This could be why you only see this kind of traffic with one IP address. >> Is there a way to fix this? > >Something on your FreeBSD box is sending DNS queries to your Windows box >and is timing out its query and closing the socket it used to send the >query before the Windows box returns its response. Because you have >net.inet.udp.log_in_vain enabled, your FreeBSD box logs the arrival of >the DNS response packet because there is not a UDP socket listening on >the port that the response is being returned to. > >About all you can do to turn off these messages is to turn off >udp.log_in_vain. As a substitute you could log unexpected packets using >one of the firewall packages on FreeBSD, which would allow you to ignore >packets coming from port 53 on your DNS server.
I get similar messages, viz: Feb 2 09:16:59 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.0.1:3826 from 192.168.0.1:53 Feb 2 09:17:39 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.0.1:3827 from 192.168.0.1:53 Feb 2 09:20:28 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.0.1:3853 from 192.168.0.1:53 Feb 2 09:20:33 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.0.1:3854 from 192.168.0.1:53 Feb 2 09:20:43 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.0.1:3855 from 192.168.0.1:53 Feb 2 09:21:01 <kern.info> localhost /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 192.168.0.1:3856 from 192.168.0.1:53 Sysctl log_in_vain is is set for both tcp & udp. It has been like this for ages and so far I can find neither an explanation as to why, no a way to fix it (assuming it is some kind of breakage/misconfiguration). OS is 4.9-stable as of 15 January, 2004. There is indeed a Windows box at 192.168.0.2, but DNS is on the FreeBSD machine, configured as cache-only (supposedly; could be something not quite correct in that config...) There are 2 network interfaces and the syslog indicates (I think correctly) named listening on both of them when it starts. 192.168.0/24 is on an internal interface/network; the external interface gets its ip-address from the ISP via DHCP. What I'd like to do is 1. fix any errors/misconfigurations that might be causing those messages and 2. keep the cache-only nameserver, and have it run/query efficiently. Any ideas/suggestions/suggested reading? Thanks, -kc _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"