[Novalug] Finding PID That Is Querying DNS

Bernie Hoefer LUG-Member at TheMoreIKnow.info
Wed Oct 3 12:29:06 EDT 2007


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Kevin Dwyer wrote:
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> Ah, in that case the kernel is most likely responsible.  netstat run as
> root will not show a PID for connections made by the kernel.  (This is
> easy to notice when you mount an NFS drive, for instance.)
> 
> Now, I don't know which module exactly would do this or the best way to
> track it down, but this should at least narrow your search.
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     Hmmm.  That's a good suggestion that the traffic might be coming from
the kernel, itself.  I'll have to research that.  Thanks!

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