Interpreting errmsgs.

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Tue Oct 2 13:25:29 UTC 2001


At 04:14 AM 10/2/01, Claire Chan wrote:
>Danny Mayer wrote:
> > 
> > At 08:33 AM 10/1/01, Claire Chan wrote:
> > 
> > >Sorry fr asking so many questions,
> > >
> > >can someone tell me what can cause a slew of such error msgs? Looks like
> > >whoever sent us a query refused our connection when we answered it.
> > >
> > >ns_req: sendto([192.0.1.163].35223): Connection refused
> > 
> > More likely that you are forwarding a request to another server and it's refusing
> > to accept the connection.
> > 
>
>I have lots of these msgs and sent to many different ips and to high
>ports, so it seems
>these are not forward queries to other servers....

Then it's a firewall issue.  The firewall is not allow the UDP packet to be
returned to the requestor.

         Danny



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