Re: Speaking of broadcasts, is this a security threat?
Well, you are already telling it to 'shut up' by denying it. If you don't
want the denies to show up in your logs, you'll just have to put off the
logging option in ipchains.
Ron Rademaker
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Micah Anderson wrote:
>
> Every few minutes I see the following show up in my log:
>
> Aug 8 00:03:17 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> +10.0.0.1:1999 255.255.255.255:1999 L=94 S=0x00 I=638 F=0x4000 T=1 (#4)
> Aug 8 00:49:40 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> +10.0.0.1:1999 255.255.255.255:1999 L=94 S=0x00 I=639 F=0x4000 T=1 (#4)
> Aug 8 00:03:17 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> +10.0.0.1:1999 255.255.255.255:1999 L=94 S=0x00 I=638 F=0x4000 T=1 (#4)
> Aug 8 00:49:40 riseup kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> +10.0.0.1:1999 255.255.255.255:1999 L=94 S=0x00 I=639 F=0x4000 T=1 (#4)
>
> Now if I interpret this correctly this means that my internal network
> interface is broadcasting protocol 1999 (which is like a kerberos thing? I
> dont know, I don't have kerberos installed, enabled or anything on my
> system) - but it seems to be blasting it out and I am trying to deny
> it. Is this actually something on my end that I need to tell to shutup, or
> is someone doing this to me? Either one, how can I make it stop??
>
> Thanks!
> Micah
>
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