From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DquFK-000201-N9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:54:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j68ErSIu029780; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:53:28 GMT Received: from mail.thompsonmike.co.uk (thompsonmike.plus.com [212.159.25.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j68EngOi009015 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:49:42 GMT Received: from pherkab.thompsonmike.co.uk (pherkab.thompsonmike.co.uk [192.168.1.14]) by mail.thompsonmike.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C81B34D4 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:49:51 +0100 (BST) From: Michael Thompson Organization: My own little world To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 161 UDP Constant Connections Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:46:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200507081516.52836.mike@thompsonmike.co.uk> <42CE8E7B.3050606@igoe.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <42CE8E7B.3050606@igoe.me.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507081546.44691.mike@thompsonmike.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thompsonmike.co.uk X-Archives-Salt: 69736d7a-09c3-48b1-8bd0-65f996a143a1 X-Archives-Hash: d38d573e1b7b4b528f64d102460fbe61 On Friday 08 July 2005 15:32, Tim Igoe wrote: > Michael Thompson wrote: > > This IP 212.56.68.108 has been attempting to contact Port 161 UDP for > > Months. > > Are you running SNMP on your box? Port 161 is SNMP, if you have it open > to the outside world, could it be collecting data - hence often > connections? Nope. It is closed off and I dont have SNMP running. > > > No when I try and run a NMAP scan against the box, I get my own logs > > filled with the NMAP Scan. It is like 212.56.68.108 is mirroring to my IP > > Space. And I dont Understand why! > > > > The connecting IP is in my ISP range, however it has no rDNS which the > > ISP would do according to their technical support. It maps back to > > hugeglobal.net > > Contact your ISPs support department - see if they can help at all? Have done, they are looking into it, but they admit it is strange and have no clue. > > > I'm not entirely sure it is a customer's machine, even though it is > > within the ISP IP range. It's rDNS shows it is > > > > hugeglobal.net. > > > > The odd thing to me, is if one does a lookup on hugeglobal.net one gets > > > > 82.103.128.2 and the rDNS of that is > > > > e82-103-128-2s.easyspeedy.com > > Possible the original hugeglobal.net machine has since changed ISPs but > the old IP has been re-assigned without the rDNS entry being changed? > That is possible, but the ISP says they are still in control of the subnet. > > Any one got any ideas? > > you could just try blackholing the IP at your firewall, or as i've > already mentioned - try and contact your ISP with all you know and see > if htey can shed any light on it - its possible a comprimised box. It is firewalled, and blacklisted. Has been for months. I am just curious as to why it is coming back to me. -- Mike To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. GnuGPG KeyID:=FC0D8D9A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list