From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 12:15:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (2811.dynacom.net [206.107.213.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2D937B416 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.03) id A9683AE03D4; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:15:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3BB22965.9AAEA6AB@owt.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:15:49 -0700 From: Kent Stewart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael MacKinnon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: @home DNS server seems to be scanning my ports? References: <20010926131955.2B95537B418@hub.freebsd.org> <20010926131955.2B95537B418@hub.freebsd.org> <5.0.2.1.0.20010926121341.00a5de40@netmail.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael MacKinnon wrote: > > I keep getting these messages on my freebsd system: > > "Connection attempt to UDP :X from 24.69.255.196:53 > > where X is some port number. It's usually different. The latest ones were, > in series, ports 1034, 1036, 1037. > > It seems to try to connect to 3-6 ports a day. > > Does anyone know what these might be from? Is there a problem here? > Is the problem mine or my ISPs? Any way to fix it? Yes, deny their ip address. You aren't supposed to be running a server and they are testing for it. I have a friend in Oceanside that is scanned the same way. Kent > > Tech Support said that it was the DHCP server trying to renew, but would > that be on port 53? > > Any help would be appreciated, > Thanks, > Mike. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com Carl Sagan quote on Seti@home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html It is hard to believe you are soaring with Eagles (las águilas) when you accept SPAM like a mouse (el ratón). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message