Re: newbie iptables question
Incoming from Bernd Eckenfels:
> In article <[🔎] 20040814044233.GG18309@infidel.spots.ab.ca> you wrote:
> >> > > Aug 12 04:36:53 towern kernel: |iptables -- IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=
> >> > > SRC=201.129.122.85 DST=12.65.24.43 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=115
> >> > > ID=40023 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4346 DPT=445 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
> ...
> > It all depends on whether you have services running on your machine
> > that listen on DPT (445 in this case). If something is there to "pick
> > up the phone" so to speak, anything can happen. That service could
> > answer on another port altogether.
>
> Well, you need to check if DST= is a local address, anyway.
Are you suggesting that I might see stuff in my logs that was destined
for a foreign IP? If so, that would make me an open mail relay, no?
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