On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:45, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > > mega-library had been on it, but still, 9 1/2 MiB of extra messages in > > syslog over 18 hours is a *bit* much (I'm not tight for disk space on > > whats going in the log? how about making a firewall rule that drops the > packets for that port and tell it NOT to log for that rule > > nate > (running happily with 4 static ips for 2 years on his dsl) > Just line after line of: <Date> <Time> localhost ippl: port 4662 connection attempt from <IP> combined with a similar one from tcplogd that has reverse dns. 101,363 yesterday over 18 hours - makes my hourly logcheck reports a pain to dig through for anything else that might be happening, but I don't want to start adjusting those rules to leave things unreported to me, and it is still traffic pulling away from my system's productive activities (and running seti@home.) Maybe I need a faster disk or better bandwidth to it, or to not use ext3 on /var, but I'd *most* prefer if EDonkey and such programs actually did eventually time out rather than poking eternally at an unserviced port. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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