Strange connect attempts
Benjamin Walkenhorst
krylon at gmx.net
Sat Feb 7 03:50:05 PST 2004
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Hello everybody,
Under FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE on i386 I get lots of kernel messages like
this one:
Feb 7 12:38:01 neuromancer kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:49383
/etc/services has this to say on Port 512/udp:
biff 512/udp comsat #used by mail system to notify
users
Is there any way I can get rid of these messages? From the fact they
show up on my console, I assume port 512 is not open. Should I open it?
The machine is on a local network with me being the only user, so
security considerations aren't that important, really. =)
On the other hand, what do I need it for? I'd rather have it just shut
up.
Any hints?
Thank you very much,
kind regards,
Benjamin
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