RE: Debian box listening on UDP port 68
> Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I noticed that all my Debian boxes are listening on port 68/UDP if
they
> > have the DHCP client running.
> >
> > Can someone explain to me why they would listen on that port if they
> > actually received their DHCP info and they are up and running.
> >
> > udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0.0:*
> >
> > is there any argument I need to pass to dhclient to fix this
behavior ?
> >
>
> It is probably that way since dhclient expects that it may need to
> listen to the DHCP server if the lease is revoked or some other such
> thing.
Any ways to disable such behavior?
>
> Please get rid of the above ridiculous notices or please post from a
> different email address. About 66-75% of your message text is that
> disclaimer, which by the way holds very little or no legal weight,
> espcially considering you posted to a public mailing list with
thousands
> of recipients.
Unfortunately this is appended automatically.
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sanchez
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