On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:48:53PM +0100, Sven Borkert wrote:
> Hi,
> i found about 30-40 lines in netstat like this:
> 
> udp        0      0 217.226.xx.xxx:56459    198.41.0.4:42           VERBUNDEN 
> 23650/java
> 
> 198.41.0.4 => a.root-servers.net
> A root nameserver.
> 
> I can't find anything about it in the freenet documentation and it looks like 
> an attempt to dos the nameserver.
They are not real connections, they are datagram sockets - they do not
cause any data to go across the network. They are simply used to find
out our public internet IP address. However there is a leak which will
be fixed shortly (there should only be one of these at a time).
> 
> I Updated my Node to the newest build yesterday...
> 
> Sven
> 

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