Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011 schrieb Michael D. Berger: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:27:16 +0000, Duncan wrote: > > [...] > > WireShark is showing what look like real DNS queries. It > is true that I had my interface set to "any", which might > support your suggestion that I am reading the bus, so I > set the interface to eth0. The problem persists. > > But in any case, I also get DNS responses to the bad queries > from external locations such as 151.197.0.38, which ARIN > identifies is a Verizon location, and which I can successfully > ping. Therefore it would appear the DNS queries are real. > > Now I ran netstat as you suggested. There is plenty there that > makes me nervous, for example: > /var/run/dbus/system-bus-socket > /tmp/ksocket-root/kdeinit4__0 > and much more. I would not be surprised if some internal socket > were internally confused with eth0. This is highly unlikely. as long as you don't tell, no process will confuse file sockets with network sockets. This is such a basic unix stuff that it is tested very well. > netstat has numerous options, > and I would be happy to receive suggestions on their use to get > better information. usually try -apt for tcp connections and -apu for udp connections (ntp uses udp connections on port 123). with the p switch you can show the process using the port/socket. you have to identify the process starting the query and afterwards check the configuration of this process. most likely this is wrong. Martin > > I agree that something looks "seriously screwed", I most certainly > will post whatever solution I find. (I note that I could punt and > use iptables -j QUEUE (as I do for other purposes) to parse and > block the bad DNS, but I hope for a better solution.) > > Mike. > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.