On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 19:07 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote: > 2006/2/27, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > Maybe unrelated: In the above network traffic, what is the port 1238 > > traffic to/from user89-net218219030.ayu.ne.jp? UDP port 1238 is defined > > as hacl-qs, but I cannot find what it does. Take a look at netstat -n | > > grep 1238. > > I will check tomorrow morning, now I am at home, so server is out of > my reach :-) > > > > I took a quick look at the attached ethereal data. There does not seem > > to be any traffic to your DNS server or to redhat, for testfailed. This > > sure points to some kind of proxy running on the same box. Try ethereal > > on the lo interface. > > > yes, there is no traffic to redhat, if I use wget with no flag or yum, > but traffic is existing with flagged wget > > > One other thought: Try stopping mDNSResponder (service mDNSResponder > > stop). > > > I will try it: I do not understand why mDNS should be a problem with > no-flag wget (and yum), otherwise it is o.k. > > > > > > I have a doubt to have upgraded some part with some extra repository > causing this weirdness...but how can I check?? > Antonio, If you have the time (tomorrow) and the CPU cycles: rpm -Va to verify the installed packages. I've never done it, but rumor has it that it takes a very long time. Maybe something will pop up. You have probably done this, and I missed it, could you post the output of ifconfig -a, netstat -rn and radvdump (just in case)? A little far of field, but you could try running wget (and maybe yum) under strace. Bob...
