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SubjectRe: ICMP Weirdness (old bug resurfaced?)
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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