Why these connections from 127.0.0.1?

[Jonathon McKitrick]

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
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