> All these are blocked by rule #42.  What is that rule?
> These log messages are from strange hosts.  80% of them don't
> resolve to a real hostname.  All the packets you listed are
> tcp packets with no SYN flag, meaning they are theoretically
> responses to some tcp dns request your machine made.  Because
> they are all response packets, I'm not sure what's going on.
> I don't know why you're getting responses from so many odd
> computers.  The other strange thing, is that I would expect
> your firewall rules to allow response to outgoing TCP DNS requests.
> That's why I want to see rule 42.
>
>    ipchains -L > /tmp/myrules
>    vi /tmp/myrules, find line 42, and post it.

Here is the rule.  My ruleset is standard Dachstein with only a couple
of additions:

42    2795  124K DENY       all  ----l- 0xFF 0x00  eth0
0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0             n/a

Searching the Internet turns up a number of scripts that scan port 53
for Bind.  Let me know what you think.

Sean


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