[Xitami] Console.log msgs
Ted Heske
xitami@lists.xitami.org
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:50:35 -0400
> > Connect to : 207.69.188.186 () port 53
> > Request ip address 192.168.0.2
>
> This is an ordinary DNS look-up. The 207.69.188.186 address is similar
> to the one you used to mail your note, so I assume it is your ISP's DNS
> server. Port 53 is in fact DNS service (I had to check). Xitami seems to
> want to know who 192.168.0.2 is.
Thanks for the response. That is an internal LAN address of the machine
that xitami is running on. I'm not sure what xitami is looking for.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the answer it gets, and I'm not sure Xitami
> liked it. The "packet size error" is also odd.
>
> > start of authority blackhole.isi.edu
>
> FWIW: http://www.isi.edu/ is the engineering school at The University of
> Southern California. They say they've been around since the 1870s, and
> have had a quarter million students. So the organization is legit, but
> who knows what those engineering students are doing. The odd DNS results
> may just mean that someone plugged in a laptop in the Lab.
>
I had looked them up before also. OK, I guess I'll really have to prove my
ignorance here. Does this mean they are looking me up? What exactly is
going on?
> Why is Xitami doing DNS look-ups? There IS an option to do that, but we
> generally leave it turned off because it is very slow. Maybe you enabled
> it?
>
I don't see the option for turning on DNS look-ups. I do have an option set
for "Debug reverse DNS queries." Is this the one you mean? "Allow
recursive queries" is also checked.