From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 10: 5:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B4937B402 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:05:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rogers.com ([24.153.58.165]) by fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.04.06 201-253-122-122-106-20020109) with ESMTP id <20020228180514.TXNB105573.fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com> for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:05:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3C7E7158.2010801@rogers.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:05:12 -0500 From: David Pfeffer Reply-To: aristea@rogers.com Organization: Optical_Intelligence.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020222 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: icmp message on xconsole Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.153.58.165] using ID at Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:05:14 -0500 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 This message showed up on my xconsole: icmp redirect from 61.214.131.66: 61.214.131.66 => 0.0.0.0 It appears six times. Can someone explain what it means? Is someone trying to tamper with my computer? I typed "dig -x 61.214.131.66" and received this information: ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -x ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; 66.131.214.61.in-addr.arpa, type = ANY, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: 66.131.214.61.in-addr.arpa. 1D IN PTR p3066-ipbf02marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 131.214.61.in-addr.arpa. 1D IN NS ns-kg001.ocn.ad.jp. 131.214.61.in-addr.arpa. 1D IN NS ns-kn001.ocn.ad.jp. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns-kg001.ocn.ad.jp. 2h28m49s IN A 211.129.14.142 ns-kn001.ocn.ad.jp. 2h22m25s IN A 211.129.12.50 ;; Total query time: 579 msec ;; FROM: kestrel.optical-intelligence.org to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 28 12:49:47 2002 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 44 rcvd: 181 I am just learning FreeBSD so I will be reading the man pages and other info that can be provided. I just want to make sure that someone hasn't succesfully hacked into my computer. I have disabled ssh and ftp. Any help is most welcome. Thank you. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message