Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:23:16 -0500 From: "Mohsin Rahman" <mtech@buffnet.net> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>, "Spades" <spades@galaxynet.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages Message-ID: <005d01c3b2d1$2cd8caa0$6213f6cd@mohsin> References: <20031124085442.9FCA36B5F7@jareth.dreamhost.com><001001c3b2be$cae743b0$fa10fea9@bryanuptrvb0jc> <200311241128.56354.kstewart@owt.com>
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sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1 sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1 turns em on and sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=0 sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=0 turns them off. Hope this helps. Anyone know how to add a time/date to this log entry and which file to modify? -- Mohsin Rahman mtech@buffnet.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Spades" <spades@galaxynet.org>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:28 PM Subject: Re: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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