On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:30:40AM +0100, Martin Kofahl wrote: > Hi, > I'm testing haproxy 1.4-dev6 and wonder about a random chosen (but above > 32000?) udp port opened by haproxy. Haproy binds to tcp/80 and has syslog > logging enabled to 127.0.0.1:514. What is this port for? > > # lsof -iUDP -P > haproxy 19534 haproxy 5u IPv4 4962049 UDP *:32773
It's the system that's choosing a random local port to communicate with syslogd on port 514. I should add that in a FAQ somewhere, as it also got me nuts once, until I straced and understood ! Regards, Willy
