Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:22:36 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Redmond Militante <mre037@merle.acns.nwu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limiting closed port rst response from ... Message-ID: <20021021152236.GD402@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.10210210936250.20532-100000@merle.acns.nwu.edu> References: <Pine.HPX.4.10.10210210936250.20532-100000@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
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# mre037@merle.acns.nwu.edu / 2002-10-21 09:38:52 -0500:
> hi all
>
> i saw this messages in /var/log/messages over the weekend repeated several
> times
>
> oct 21 09:35:15 hostname /kernel: limiting closed port rst response from
> 384 to 200 packets per second
>
> also listed in the log were several attempts to connect to the machine via
> anonymous ftp
>
> can anyone tell me what the limiting closed port... message means?
* AFAICT *
that means that your box is trying to circumvent a possible DoS
attack. this message is of the same kind as those
previous message repeated N times
lines in /var/log/messages.
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