I got the following output from "netstat -elpn" on my firewall (kernel 2.4.2, 
iptables).

/-([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(166/ttyS0)-(17:56:42:Friday Apr 20)- 
\-(/var/log)- 
ROOT : netstat -elpn
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       
User       Inode      PID/Program name   
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
0          1229       427/sshd            
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
0          1542       487/sendmail: accep 
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:1112            0.0.0.0:*                           
0          127022     16024/send-mail
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node PID/Program name    
Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     125202 15009/pump          
/var/run/pump.sock

What's up with the send-mail process listening on port 1112 ? That looks really 
bad to me. A few seconds later the process is gone. Further netstat command 
only show sshd and sendmail.

Then I did a "find / -inum 127022" but there is no file with that inode. Uh oh. 
That can't be good either. The firewall runs an old redhat 6.2 install (haven't 
converted everything to debian, but I'm working on it!) with most everything 
turned off, as seen from the netstat output.

My iptables rules log and then drop everything by default, with ssh and mail 
rerouted to a server on the internal LAN using NAT. The following lines show up 
in my logfiles ( "UNKNOWN CONNECTION ATTEMPT" is a prefix added by my iptables 
rule).

Apr 20 17:41:28 cerberus kernel: UNKNOWN CONNECTION ATTEMPT IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=[snip] SRC=24.92.226.174 DST=66.66.82.158 LEN=69 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=247 
ID=27145 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=1112 LEN=49  
Apr 20 17:41:45 cerberus kernel: UNKNOWN CONNECTION ATTEMPT IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=[snip] SRC=24.92.226.13 DST=66.66.82.158 LEN=69 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=247 
ID=7141 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=1112 LEN=49

The SRC= addresses in the above are valid RoadRunner DNS servers. They are the 
ones I use.

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Jonathan Freiermuth
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