Re: Amavisd listening on multiple UDP ports

On 19. 09. 24 03:01, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Is there any way to disable these (random?) UDP listening ports
> (47998|32542|14380|34448|45248|22313|26237|61057) or any downside
> to filtering them?
>
> Roger
>
>  # lsof | grep -w vscan | grep UDP
>  COMMAND PID  USER  FD      TYPE               DEVICE SIZE/OFF    NODE 
> NAME
>  perl  79714 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff80164e96b40      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:59511->$nameserver.ip:53
>  perl  79714 vscan 12u IPv4 0xfffff802071cb880      0 UDP *:47998->*:*
>  perl  79715 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff8010be3c340      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:43712->$nameserver.ip:53
>  perl  79715 vscan 11u IPv4 0xfffff80151d19dc0      0 UDP *:32542->*:*
>  perl  79716 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff8005a7cb300      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:49013->$nameserver.ip:53
>  perl  79716 vscan 12u IPv4 0xfffff800215cfac0      0 UDP *:14380->*:*
>  perl  79717 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff8005a7cb140      0 UDP *:34448->*:*
>  perl  79717 vscan 11u IPv4 0xfffff80336cb4f20      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:21362->$nameserver.ip:53
>  perl  79718 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff8008a018c60      0 UDP *:45248->*:*
>  perl  79718 vscan 11u IPv4 0xfffff800702ece40      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:43194->$nameserver.ip:53
>  perl  79719 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff8010be3cdc0      0 UDP *:22313->*:*
>  perl  79719 vscan 11u IPv4 0xfffff800da7546a0      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:12460->$nameserver.ip:53
>  perl  79720 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff800702ec220      0 UDP *:26237->*:*
>  perl  79720 vscan 11u IPv4 0xfffff800661973c0      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:21489->$nameserver.ip:53
>  perl  79721 vscan 10u IPv4 0xfffff802d3897920      0 UDP *:61057->*:*
>  perl  79721 vscan 11u IPv4 0xfffff80066197800      0 UDP 
> $amavis.ip:43299->$nameserver.ip:53
>
These look like DNS lookups going from *$amavis.ip:[random_port]* to 
*$nameserver.ip:53*.

I guess filtering them could have some downsides.


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