Re: either lynx or leafnode makes a strange DNS request
Frank Gevaerts said:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed leafnode on my system, and I use lynx to read news.
> Whenever lynx connects to the newsserver (on localhost), an outgoing DNS
> request is sent to lookup '239.159.129.38.in-addr.arpa', which gets a
> negative reply from the upstream DNS server.
>
> AFAIK this is IP 38.129.159.239.
>
> Does anybody know why this DNS request is sent ? It is annoying, since it
> makes my ISDN router setup a connection.
you could run strace on the process(s) to find which one is doing it,
it may give some insight on why it is sending the request. looks like
the IP belongs to PSINet, is any of your news stuff using PSINet ?
strace can produce very verbose information which may be hard to decypher,
so I reccomend redirecting output, e.g.:
strace -p <PID> >&strace1.log
nate
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