lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Dec 3 18:47:48 UTC 2009


Knute Johnson wrote:

> I'm getting a recurring kernel error about every 30 seconds to a minute.
>   This is from logwatch but the kernel and messages logs are similar.
> 
> 1 Time(s): [ 9503.788362] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>   1 Time(s): [ 9503.942683] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>   1 Time(s): [ 9803.349930] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>   1 Time(s): [ 9803.505668] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>   1998 Time(s): lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

I've got no ideas how to prevent the messages, but I wouldn't worry about it 
(except that that's on the order of 2000 extra lines of logging every day) - 
it's the loopback (127.0.0.1) interface and really can't use and doesn't 
need "Privacy Extensions".
-- 
derek





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