[Xquartz-dev] org.macosforge.xquartz dns lookup

Tue Nov 16 10:34:28 PST 2010

No, it's querying org.macosforge.xquartz, which is why it's weird.
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Pelle Johansson

16 nov 2010 kl. 19.29 skrev Jeremy Huddleston:

> 
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:04, Pelle Johansson wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> I didn't yet update to the new beta, but I've been debugging DNS a bit lately and noticed these weird queries in tcpdump:
>> 
>>   192.168.2.224.49483 > 8.8.8.8.53: [udp sum ok] 4303+ AAAA? org.macosforge.xquartz. (40)
>> 18:58:17.371013 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 46, id 24232, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 143)
>> 
>> and I've actually seen them for org.x. as well (though that might've been on a computer without Xquartz installed). This is while Xquartz/X11 is not even running. Does anyone have an idea what could cause this?
> 
> That's querying the IPV6 (AAAA) address of xquartz.macosforge.org
> 
> If you have XQuartz running, it is likely looking to see if there is a new version available.
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