Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:20:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "tjk@tksoft.com" <tjk@tksoft.com>, memphis_ms@gmx.net (Raoul Schroeder), David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Security) Subject: Re: 'nother IPFW question Message-ID: <200105251920.f4PJK6L42034@earth.backplane.com> References: <3B0EA2AE.5B00EB2@gmx.net> <200105251828.f4PIS1Y41320@earth.backplane.com> <20010525194056.A19706@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>
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Whup! Not pop. Auth. It's probably sendmail. In anycase, not anything
that generally needs to be worried about.
I usually do not run identd, but I usually do allow the service
through the firewall so the server not running it can respond with a
TCP reset. Otherwise remote sendmails using auth will stall trying
to send email to you for ~30 seconds. Alternatively the firewall can
be programmed to return an ICMP error itself, but I try to avoid
having the firewall do actual work to make it more resistent to DOS
attacks.
-Matt
:> :only learning about securing my box, and it is hard to find all the info
:> :I need.
:> :
:> :Thank you so much,
:> :
:> :Raoul
:>=20
:> Sounds like one of your users simply ran a pop based mail program.
:>=20
:
:Wrong port, I think :)
:
:POP is 110.
:
:113 is auth.
:
:Sounds like someone on a remote server connected to some port on your box,
:which tried to perform an ident lookup...
:
:As for what is 'sending on port 1119', ports which are used on the local end
:of outgoing connections are essentially random, and are allocated by the
:kernel when you try to create an outgoing connection.
:
:--=20
:David Taylor
:davidt@yadt.co.uk
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