That is a message from ipchains, the firewalling software that comes with
most new Linuxes. It is saying that it has denied a packet of type 17 (udp)
from the host at 24.214.6.5 (user-24-214-6-5.knology.net) on port 1031,
which is a port that a client or user process would use. It look like the
request was destined for the host at 209.192.53.62
(user-209-192-53-62.knology.net), port 53, which is the dns port.
So, what I am guessing happened is that you set up an incomplete firewall
script of some sort, or were playing with ipchains (a good thing to play
with). Either way, you have ipchains logging, and someone is trying to do a
dns lookup. It's getting blocked, and you're seeing the log entries.
Look in /etc/rc.d at the rc.local script, or maybe rc.sysinit. If you don't
see a reference to ipchains in those files, look for it in the files in
/etc/rc.d/init.d.
To flush the firewall rule, you can type 'ipchains -F' (without the quotes)
as root.
Regards,
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCP, MCT
Three-Sixteen Technical Services, Inc.
Linux training in Austin, Texas - http://training.three-sixteen.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven
Westbrook
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Weird Error in logs
Hey all.. I have a weird error that's going on in my logs that I can't
figure out. I have compiled a kernel 2.2.13 and for some reason it's
started giving me this error. Does anyone know the fix? Or should I just
compile a new kernel?
Feb 16 17:17:29 westserver kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
209.192.53.62:53 24.214.6.5:1031 L=242 S=0x00 I=64745 F=0x0000 T=60 (#5)
thanks,
steve westbrook
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