Re: Message type unreachable - bad...
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Question about logs, logging, etc.
>
> I have the following (or similar) message from ippl (my ip logger) showing up
> in my syslog every hour on the hour:
>
> May 25 12:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1
>
> (sorry about not wrapping that)
>
> I've determined that this happens when logcheck sends it's report to my
> MTA (masqmail) which then forwards the message to me in accordance with ny
> /etc/aliases file.
>
> I do not generate a similar message when sending mail off site, but I do
> when fetching my mail from my POP mail provider(s). This also occured
> when I was using fetchmail (before two weeks ago). This message occurs for
> every mail that is delivered to a user on the local machine.
>
> Am I correct in assuming the ICMP message is being generated by masqmail
> and not by another program, possibly procmail?
>
> Is there another program that is called by masqmail or procmail that causes
> this?
>
> My gut says this has to do with dns, and that if I were to add a
> caching-only server on my machine, this would go away. Is this correct?
I know that fetchmail generates these when delivering mail.
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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