From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 4:14:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EC737B428 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 04:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15mZ7b-0001yN-00; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:14:27 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:14:27 +0100 From: Ceri To: Kent Stewart Cc: Michael MacKinnon , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: @home DNS server seems to be scanning my ports? Message-ID: <20010927121427.A1038@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010926131955.2B95537B418@hub.freebsd.org> <20010926131955.2B95537B418@hub.freebsd.org> <5.0.2.1.0.20010926121341.00a5de40@netmail.home.com> <3BB22965.9AAEA6AB@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB22965.9AAEA6AB@owt.com>; from kstewart@owt.com on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:15:49PM -0700 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 On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:15:49PM -0700, Kent Stewart said: > Michael MacKinnon wrote: > > > > I keep getting these messages on my freebsd system: > > > > "Connection attempt to UDP :X from 24.69.255.196:53 Oh, I get complaints like this everyday - I normally bin them. > > 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. Umm, no. Don't do that. This is their DNS server answering queries that you have made. A little knowledge is certainly a dangerous thing. > > Tech Support said that it was the DHCP server trying to renew, but would > > that be on port 53? They are clueless. Ceri -- # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message