[ale] Meaning of tcpdump results ?....

[Courtney Thomas]

Greetings !

Using -> tcpdump -i tunl0 on Debian-2.4.6, I get results as shown in the 
attachment.

What's going on here, please ?

Gratefully,
Courtney


13:03:07.005051 debian.SAMBA.32768 > d.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:11.005060 debian.SAMBA.32768 > m.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:15.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > k.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:19.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > h.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:23.005072 debian.SAMBA.32768 > G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:27.005054 debian.SAMBA.32768 > c.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:31.005051 debian.SAMBA.32768 > b.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:39.005051 debian.SAMBA.32768 > f.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:47.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > j.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:03:55.005058 debian.SAMBA.32768 > a.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:03.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:11.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > b.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:15.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > f.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:19.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > j.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:23.005051 debian.SAMBA.32768 > a.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:27.006161 debian.SAMBA.32768 > E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:31.005054 debian.SAMBA.32768 > i.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:35.005052 debian.SAMBA.32768 > l.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:39.005057 debian.SAMBA.32768 > d.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)
13:04:43.005053 debian.SAMBA.32768 > m.root-servers.net.domain:  18740 NS? . (17) (DF)



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