Topic: Verisign - 193.0.14.129

[Jason Judge]

I have upgraded to E-smith 5 from E-smith 4 and am finding that E-smith now attempts to connect to 193.0.14.129, port 53 as it boots up - a Verisign server. Port 53 is DNS name-server service.

Any idea why it should try to do this and how I can switch this off?

Jason

[Rich Lafferty]

That address resolves to k.root-servers.net, one of the Internet's root DNS servers. (I'm not sure what makes you think it's Verisign's.) The DNS server on your SME Server is contacting it, or one of the dozen or so other root servers, in order to find out who is authoritative for a hostname it needs to look up.

Hope this helps,

  -Rich

[Jason Judge]

The domain is registered to:

VeriSign Global Registry Services
505 Huntmar Park Drive
Herndon, VA 20170-5142
US

I suppose the name 'root-servers' should have given me a clue! Thankyou.

To the second part of the question, how do I stop it doing this? Do I need to find out which host it is trying to look up and configure it as a local host? I can't find this action in any of the standard e-smith logs, so I am unsure what it is trying to look up. This is an experimental setup for me, but I don't believe I have set anything up that requires e-smith to visit the Internet.

Thanks,

Jason