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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:13:12 -0500
From:      Pete Ehlke <pde@rfc822.net>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SSDP?
Message-ID:  <20020724041312.GA17809@rfc822.net>
In-Reply-To: <1067.192.168.1.1.1027482603.squirrel@webmail.probsd.ws>
References:  <1067.192.168.1.1.1027482603.squirrel@webmail.probsd.ws>

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:50:03PM -0400, Michael Sharp wrote:
> I was doing a security audit last night and running ethereal.
> Immediately after starting it, I was seeing SSDP from MY router (
> 192.168.1.1 )  to the IP address 239.255.255.250 ( ep.net ). Since I'm
> not sure what SSDP is besides that it is Simple Services Discovery
> Protocol, I did:
> 
> /sbin/route -nq add -host 239.255.255.250 127.0.0.1 -blackhole
> ipfw add 98 deny all from 239.255.255.250 to me in via xl0
> ipfw add 99 deny all from me to 239.255.255.250 out via xl0
> 
> In hopes that it would stop the packets, but it didnt and the activity
> continued on ethereal. Could someone please shed some light on why I
> might be sending SSDP to this particular IP address every 10 seconds?
> 
You probably have windows machines behind your router trying to do
UPlug-N-Pray operations or printer discovery. The address you are seeing
is supposed to be a multicast address for this purpose, but windows
sends it out the default route. Your next hop router should drop it.

-pete

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