On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 08:11, Paul wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My cable-ISP keeps sending polling messages to my computer. Looks like:
> 
> Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17
> 217.120.75.23
> 2:1228 217.120.75.255:39213 L=296 S=0x00 I=15906 F=0x0000 T=128 (#33)
> Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17
> 217.120.75.23
> 2:1229 217.120.75.255:39213 L=852 S=0x00 I=15907 F=0x0000 T=128 (#33)
> Dec 18 22:08:38 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17
> 217.120.75.23
> 2:1230 217.120.75.255:39213 L=140 S=0x00 I=15908 F=0x0000 T=128 (#33)
> Dec 18 22:08:40 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17
> 217.120.75.23
> 2:1231 217.120.75.255:39213 L=296 S=0x00 I=15909 F=0x0000 T=128 (#33)
> Dec 18 22:08:41 tbird kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=17
> 217.120.75.23
> 2:1232 217.120.75.255:39213 L=140 S=0x00 I=15910 F=0x0000 T=128 (#33)
> 
> In itself no problem. But these things also show up in /var/log/messages,
> and pop through on the console outside of X. Is there a way that you know to
> suppress this stuff?
> Or, on second thought, is this coming from somewhere else, e.g. a firewall?
> 
> Paul
> 

That IP address resolves to:

Non-authoritative answer:
94.67.120.212.in-addr.arpa      name = r1-pos2-0.mill1.nb.home.nl.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
67.120.212.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns1.home.nl.
67.120.212.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns2.home.nl.

What about blocking the port?

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