refused query on non-query socket from...

[Michael Douglass]

I agree with you about no indication of any odd external maliciousness.
I am 100% under the belief that this is a bug introduced in 8.3.0..
why we are the only ones seeing it is beyond me. :/

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:05:31PM -0700, Alan Sparks said:
> I might have been the poster mentioned.  I was unable to resolve the
> issue, after some effort.  Dropping back to 8.2.5 avoided the problem.
> I just gave up on 8.3, actually, had no time to debug 8.3.  There was no
> indication of any odd external maliciousness or other such ilk.
> -Alan
> 
> Michael Douglass said:
> >
> >
> > I saw someone post mid-january about getting the "refused query on
> > non-query socket from..." when running the 8.3.0 version.  Someone
> > responded with the fact that a query was coming in on a port
> > listening for the response to a recursive query.  Fair enough...
> > Except that I know this is not what is happening.
> >
> > We are having the same problem (with 8.3.0 and 8.3.1 both); except
> > that these are RESPONSE packets that for some reason 8.3.x is
> > munging into request packets--or so it would appear.  The IP
> > addresses that are listed in these sysloged errors are the DNS
> > servers for names
> > we are trying to resolve.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Michael Douglass
> > Chief System Engineer
> > Texas Networking, Inc.  (512-794-7123)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alan Sparks, Sr. UNIX Administrator     asparks at quris.com
> Quris, Inc.                             (720) 836-2058
> 

-- 
Michael Douglass
Chief System Engineer
Texas Networking, Inc.  (512-794-7123)