Hostname lookups? (tcpdump output)

[Joshua Lokken]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:23:49 +0100, Florian Hengstberger
<e0025265 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Active Internet connections
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
> tcp4       0      0  lazarus.49201          hpat989.external.http  TIME_WAIT
> tcp4       0      0  lazarus.49199          66.102.9.104.http      ESTABLISHED
> tcp4       0      0  localhost.smtp         *.*                    LISTEN
> udp4       0      0  localhost.49158        localhost.ntp
> udp4       0      0  localhost.ntp          *.*
> udp4       0      0  lazarus.ntp            *.*
> 
> Secondly: I'm only running ntp and ssh (and mozilla), why is a socket
> listening on the smtp port?

Sendmail is part of the base system, and will listen on the smtp
port unless instructed not to in /etc/rc.conf:

sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

That will completely disable sendmail.

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Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate