From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 9 4:48: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356AA37B420 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 04:47:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 162B4e-0001uw-00; Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:47:56 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 162B3r-00073p-00; Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:47:07 +0000 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:47:07 +0000 From: setantae To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: too many dynamic rules Message-ID: <20011109124707.GC26931@rhadamanth> References: <20011108201207.GA49594@rhadamanth> <20011109024142.Q51134@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011109024142.Q51134@blossom.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i 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 Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:41:42AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:12:07PM +0000, setantae wrote: > > > > For approximately 18 seconds today my firewall went apesh*t > > (these are all relevant entries) : > > > > Nov 8 14:47:45 rhadamanth /kernel: Too many dynamic rules, sorry > > Nov 8 14:47:45 rhadamanth natd[218]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) > > > At the time there was only one user logged onto the box, and no clients > > behind the firewall - unfortunately I have no idea what I was doing at the > > time, > > You wouldn't have happened to have been port scanning someone (nmap or > the like)? My God, Holmes, how do you do it ? Now that you mention it, I think I was... That explains it, thanks! Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message