Lot of UDP traffic shown by iptraf. Does it mean problem?
Vijay Gill
vijay.s.gill at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 22:23:15 UTC 2006
>
> Can just be iptraf doing DNS lookups of stuff flying by.
>
> Incidentally this is a good way to realize if someone who doesn't
> realize they should turn off DNS lookups is running tcpdump or another
> sniffer against you locally... but in this case it is you running the
> sniffer and creating the noise, so no worries :-)
>
> -Andy
Hi Andy,
You were spot on. I disabled the reverse DNS lookups in iptraf and all
went quiet. Thanks for your reply.
Regards
Vijay
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