Matthew Galgoci <mailto:mgalgoci@xxxxxxxxxx> on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 5:19 PM said: > Yes this is dns traffic and it really does occur that often. My guess > is your linux machine isn't able to do name lookups either. [root@localhost ~]# ping cnn.com PING cnn.com (64.236.24.12) 56(84) bytes of data. [root@localhost ~]# ping google.com PING google.com (216.239.37.99) 56(84) bytes of data. is that what you mean? should those not have worked? > Running tcpdump on the server with name resolution turned off will be > an informative excercise. > > eg, /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -i eth0 > > Assuming of course that eth0 is your network interface and not > something else like ppp0 or eth1. > > Then try running tcpdump with name resolution turned on ;) > > eg, /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0 In both cases data flew past the screen faster than the matrix!! ;) Is that what you expected? > Your firewall is apparently very chatty when logging. It's actually just a DSL modem/router combo from Netopia (Cayman series). Thanks, Chris. -- Don't like reformatting your Outlook replies? Now there's relief! http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
