log messages F13

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jul 15 03:50:10 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:46 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> I just checked my own after seeing this posting - and find that
> several of the recent messages files are large:
> -rw-------. 1 root root 264K 2010-07-14 21:39 /var/log/messages
> -rw-------. 1 root root 1.0M 2010-06-20 03:21 /var/log/messages-20100620
> -rw-------. 1 root root 963K 2010-06-27 03:24 /var/log/messages-20100627
> -rw-------. 1 root root  29K 2010-07-04 03:11 /var/log/messages-20100704
> -rw-------. 1 root root  42K 2010-07-11 03:07 /var/log/messages-20100711
>  
> When I looked at the latest I see an awful lot of lines like:
> Jul 14 21:33:19 home1 named[1181]: client 127.0.0.1#38568: RFC 1918
> response from Internet for 1.122.168.192.in-addr.arpa

This looks like a machine trying to resolve LAN addresses through an
outside name server.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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