What's this syslogd on my Actiontec GT701?

I Telneted into my GT701 and found a "syslogd" process running, but I
haven't been able to connect to it from the LAN side of my network.

If I point my Web browser at

<gateway>/cgi-bin/webcm?getpage=../html/syslog.html

I can see the contents of /var/log/messages, but the only thing in it seems
to be a running account of every failed DNS lookup I've done from machines
on my LAN. Where might those be coming from, anyway?

They look like this:

(GMT)00:46:53 Tue Apr 11 2006 syslog: failed dns request len=122,srcip=
216.250.190.144, url=foo.bla.com
(GMT)00:46:53 Tue Apr 11 2006 syslog: failed dns request len=122,srcip=
216.250.190.144, url=foo.bla.com

IP 216.250.190.144 is the address of one of my ISP's DNS, and shows up in
the main status page of the GT701.

Also, how does the box know the time and date?

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN (E-Mail Removed)

"Bert Hyman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Xns97A1CAFEB40E0VeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7...
>I Telneted into my GT701 and found a "syslogd" process running, but I
> haven't been able to connect to it from the LAN side of my network.
>

I would suspect you would use something like Syslog Daemon running on a
machine with the syslog on the router broadcasted to all machines on the LAN
or pointed to the LAN/IP machine that had Syslog Daemon running.

Long
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/N...og_Daemon.html

Short

http://tinyurl.com/kbzrg

> If I point my Web browser at
>
> <gateway>/cgi-bin/webcm?getpage=../html/syslog.html
>
> I can see the contents of /var/log/messages, but the only thing in it
> seems
> to be a running account of every failed DNS lookup I've done from machines
> on my LAN. Where might those be coming from, anyway?
>
> They look like this:
>
> (GMT)00:46:53 Tue Apr 11 2006 syslog: failed dns request len=122,srcip=
> 216.250.190.144, url=foo.bla.com
> (GMT)00:46:53 Tue Apr 11 2006 syslog: failed dns request len=122,srcip=
> 216.250.190.144, url=foo.bla.com

It may not even show in something like Syslog Daemon or it can be configured
to ignore it.

>
> IP 216.250.190.144 is the address of one of my ISP's DNS, and shows up in
> the main status page of the GT701.
>

There is also Wallwatcher which you can contact them and have them add
support for your router.

http://www.sonic.net/wallwatcher/

> Also, how does the box know the time and date?

The firmware of your router knows to look for time sync servers on the
Internet and sync itself to the current date and time in your area, which
you can see that activity in a syslog viewer as internal router activity
messages and you can set it to ignore them.

You should use a proper syslog viewer and forget about it.

Duane

(E-Mail Removed) (Duane Arnold) wrote in
news:RLH_f.2240$(E-Mail Removed) nk.net:

> You should use a proper syslog viewer and forget about it.
>
> Duane

Thanks for taking the time to answer, considering that I posted this
to the wrong newsgroup :-)

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | (E-Mail Removed)