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  From: Ben Donohue <donohueb@bvm.com.au>
  To  : hawjd001 <hawjd001@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au>
  Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 23:38:51 +1000

Re: modem lights and portscans etc...

hawjd001 wrote:
> 
> are you running named?
> 
> i am, and I am surprised by how much traffic it generates.
> 
> if you do tcpdump -i ppp0 and you are running named, you will see that your little machine is
> talking to all the root nameservers. or at least mine is...
> 
> makes me kinda hope like hell that I've got things configed properlly :)
> 

well thats funny. i am running named, but there was no traffic to any
root name servers. only a bit of local stuff. so i quit navigator and
email and all apps and the lights have stopped. start up navigator and
email again and nothing - no lights. all completely stopped.

must have been something of a bug in netscape. thanks for the quick
reply and a new trick i can use to see what's going on.
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