On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Question about logs, logging, etc. > > I have the following (or similar) message from ippl (my ip logger) showing up > in my syslog every hour on the hour: > > May 25 12:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad > port from 127.0.0.1 > > (sorry about not wrapping that) > > I've determined that this happens when logcheck sends it's report to my > MTA (masqmail) which then forwards the message to me in accordance with ny > /etc/aliases file. > > I do not generate a similar message when sending mail off site, but I do > when fetching my mail from my POP mail provider(s). This also occured > when I was using fetchmail (before two weeks ago). This message occurs for > every mail that is delivered to a user on the local machine. > > Am I correct in assuming the ICMP message is being generated by masqmail > and not by another program, possibly procmail? > > Is there another program that is called by masqmail or procmail that causes > this? > > My gut says this has to do with dns, and that if I were to add a > caching-only server on my machine, this would go away. Is this correct?
I know that fetchmail generates these when delivering mail. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
