Sometimes I get reports from Snort of port  scans coming from my own 
machine.I wonder what's up?

Mike
On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:26 pm, you wrote:
> I am kind of confused. I just rebuilt my mandrake security firewall. Snort
> didn't install correctly. It did on the second attempt. Now the system has
> been up for 4 hours approximately and it looks like perhaps I'm already in
> trouble!?!?!?!
> /snort/portscan.log:Nov 30 17:15:03 xxx.3.247.xxx:1024 -> 68.2.16.30:53 UDP
> /snort/portscan.log:Nov 30 17:15:03 xxx.3.247.xxx:1024 -> 68.2.16.30:53 UDP
> /snort/portscan.log:Nov 30 17:15:11 xxx.3.247.xxx:1024 -> 68.2.16.30:53 UDP
>
> The first IP address is me! According to snort, I'm attacking this other
> address? This makes no sense to me. how could my box be compromised in less
> than 12 hours flat if it is set to high security? Incidentally that second
> IP is the one that has been attacking me, so my guess is I'm mis reading
> this. ?? Help!

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