On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:16:59 MST, JD Kitch writes: >Can anyone tell me what this person is looking for here, and how I >can find out where this is coming from?
port 161 is snmp, so it looks like someone´s trying to get information about your machine (or something at your ISP or the like is misconfigured), proto 17 is UDP which fits snugly since snmp is udp-based. >Security Violations >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 xx.xx.xx >x.xx:61662 172.16.72.113:161 L=106 S=0x00 I=7632 F=0x0000 T=127 (#43) <snip> >I've been unable to track it down. I've had pages and pages of this >every hour since early yesterday, always coming from the same IP, to >the same port. look for the ip-adress with whois -h whois.[ripe|arin|apnic].net <ipaddress> and complain to the ISP/organization responsible for it. hth, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
