From owner-freebsd-security Sun Oct 31 1: 7:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fsfw.freesoft.hu (fsfw.freesoft.hu [195.228.127.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF1D14FED for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 01:07:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbeck@freesoft.hu) Received: (from ftp@localhost) by fsfw.freesoft.hu (8.8.7/8.7.3) id KAA14488 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:06:59 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: fsfw.freesoft.hu: ftp set sender to using -f Received: by netfinity.freesoft.hu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:05:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1BD5A68BE9E8D211BBE8006094B9EB73E982@netfinity.freesoft.hu> From: Beck David To: "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Strange things on my computer / Help Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:05:23 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Beck David writes: > > Beck David writes: > > > - but the kernel complains in every 10 minutes for some _out_ going > > > ICMP packets, which goes to two hosts. > > What kind of ICMP packets? > - The ICMP type is 3.3: port unreachable Oh - that's totally benign. Some box is trying to connect to an unbound port on your box; if it's a local box, it's probably a simple configuration error. :: Yep, actually I ipfw out all the udp traffic except dns. :: Am I correct if I think that if it is denied by ipfw it shouldn't generate :: an ICMP reply ? :: Another strange thing I found, that uptime which I run periodically :: from cron, suddenly started bitching , because it didn't find /dev//root (??). :: After I made world :) , it stopped complaining. :: Another thing: the make buildworld failed a couple of times because of an unresolved :: external: realhostname at fingerd and ftpd. :: Then I started to figure out, what happened. But before I really did something it :: suddenly become OK. May be it has no meaning, I become paranoid a bit ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message