Ultrix resolver question
Rick Watson
rick at ut-emx.uucp
Wed Mar 6 07:38:33 AEST 1991
I think that netstat opens tcp/domain sockets to the nameserver.
Were you using netstat to look at your system? You might try
"netstat -n", though I don't know if this really prevents it
from opening the connection.
Rick Watson
The University of Texas Computation Center, 512/471-3241
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In article <1991Mar4.193821 at Valinor.Stanford.EDU>, vaf at Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
> We recently (today) started running a DS5000/Ultrix 4.1(55) system as
> one of our primary servers for handling mail and domain service. While
> looking at the system this evening, I noticed that along with lots of
> outgoing TCP/SMTP connections, there also seem to be a lot of TCP/DOMAIN
> connections to the local domain server port. Is it the case that Ultrix
> domain requests use TCP instead of UDP by default? Alternatively, is it
> possible that sendmail 5.65 requests this? It seems like overkill to
> setup TCP/DOMAIN (instead of light-weight UDP/DOMAIN requets) for every
> simple name lookup that is done.
>
> Thanks,
> --Vince
>
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