Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:17:03 -0600 (MDT) From: "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net> To: wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP connect data logger Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905242216520.769-100000@shellsys.net> In-Reply-To: <199905250213.MAA02815@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
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Yes, I'm interested in it! Sounds like something I could use!
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Jason L. Schwab <jschwab@royal.net>
* Unix System Administrator *
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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Warren Toomey wrote:
> This is strictly off-topic for FreeBSD, but anyway ... A few people desired
> to know why someone was attacking port X on their box. Ages ago, I wrote a
> small program, tcpsuck, that is run from inetd. Tcpsuck sits on a port and
> logs the data coming in. It stops after a pre-defined timeout, or when the
> remote end break the connection.
>
> This can help you to determine what they are looking for. It also slows
> TCP port strobe attacks, too :-)
>
> Here is where I use it on my system:
>
> bootserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> cisco-tna stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> exec stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> cmd stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> nicname stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> pop2 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> pop3 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> imap2 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> supdup stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> systat stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> tcpmux stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> login stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
> shell stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpsuck tcpsuck
>
> I also wrote a udpsuck program for UDP ports, but current FreeBSD versions
> have UDP packet logging built-in.
>
> Anybody interested in tcpsuck?
>
> Warren
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