Re: an old problem is back.
2010/2/18 Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>:
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> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:42:22 -0500
> Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com> wrote:
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>> On Thursday 18 February 2010 06:38 pm, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> > My syslog is filling up with these messages again. It seems to
>> > have happened before.
>> >
>> > Can anyone help?
>> >
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>> > Feb 18 18:26:06 squeeze dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to
>> > 192.168.1.1 port 67
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>> What IP does your DHCP server listen on? The client is sending
>> requests to 192.168.1.1 port 67. Is anything listening on that IP
>> and port?
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>
> 192.168.1.1 is the router behind a cable modem. So I assume
> the router is listening. The weird thing is a reboot has stopped
> the messages. But in looking through the syslog there are 5 hours of
> the same message. It just starts at random (seemingly) and continues
> until I reboot.
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> Frank
What kind of router? if it is a D-Link or something like that, it
could be possible that it is being attacked, and then it is not
responding well. It should be solved, rebooting the router.
Bye
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