RE: tiger message I don't understand

["Dixon, Wayne" <wcdixo () aurora lib il us>]

Do you mean Tiger as in Mac OS X 10.4?  If so, the interface "fe80" is a
the beginning of a IPV6 address, so I'd assume it can't access an IPv6
address.  If you go ahead and disable IPv6 via system preferences, does
that change anything?  You don't necessarily need to run IPv6 unless
it's required by your ISP.

Wayne Dixon 
Assistant Network Manager
Aurora Public Library
1 E. Benton Street
Aurora, IL 60505
Phone: 630-264-4257
Fax: 630-896-3209
Email: wcdixo () aurora lib il us
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-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com]
On Behalf Of ghe
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:20 AM
To: security basics
Subject: tiger message I don't understand


Can someone please tell me what these mean (from tiger on the Internet- 
facing server on the dmz)

> # Checking listening processes
> OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6
> on fe80 interface) is run by 7552.
> OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on interface) is run by 6913.
> OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on interface) is run by 7545.
> OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on interface) is run by 7551.
> NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on fe80 interface) is run by 7373.
> NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on interface) is run by 24444.
> NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on interface) is run by 6649.
> NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on interface) is run by 7356.
> NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket (udp6  
> on interface) is run by 7371.

I can't find an explanation of this on google, and netstat doesn't  
seem to see any of these...

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Glenn English
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