Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 May 1999 09:53:27 +0100 (GMT) | From | Alex Buell <> | Subject | Re: ICMP Weirdness (old bug resurfaced?) |
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On Sat, 1 May 1999, Keith Owens wrote:
> You have some service defined as running on localhost but it is not > present. Since you get this for ftp/telnet/browsing/email, the > service is probably DNS. Check /etc/resolv.conf, do you have > "nameserver localhost" or "nameserver 127.0.0.1"? If so, are you > really running DNS on your box? If the missing service is not DNS, as > root run "tcpdump -nlpilo" to see which service you are trying to > access. Either way, you need to start the service or change the config > for the missing service to remove localhost.
That was the first thing I checked -
# /etc/resolv.conf # search . nameserver 158.152.1.58 nameserver 158.152.1.43
I do not run DNS on my localhost.
I will look into this using tcpdump to find out what is going on. Thanks for your hints.
Cheers, Alex -- "A mind opened by new ideas can never return to its original limits"
http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk
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