Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:28:56 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Spades <spades@galaxynet.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages Message-ID: <200311241128.56354.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <001001c3b2be$cae743b0$fa10fea9@bryanuptrvb0jc> References: <20031124085442.9FCA36B5F7@jareth.dreamhost.com> <001001c3b2be$cae743b0$fa10fea9@bryanuptrvb0jc>
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On Monday 24 November 2003 11:11 am, Spades wrote: > I did a tail -f /var/log/messages and got all these.. > > previously before my cvs and recompile kernel to 4.9 stable > it didn't have below.. now it does.. > > Nov 25 03:09:56 asia /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 202.79.180.131:80 > from 65.217.41.66:1681 > Nov 25 03:09:58 asia /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 202.79.180.130:80 > from 24.136.234.77:4059 > > question.. how to stop seeing them in /var/log/messages? > Buy a hardware firewall that you place in front of your computer. You probably have a log option in your firewall and someone is trying to connect to your web server. You could turn off logging but I like to know who is trying to connect to my systems. This is especially true when I am not running a service and they are probing to find out if I am. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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