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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:16:03 -0400
From:      "Jung, Michael" <mjung@npc.net>
To:        "'Chris Shenton'" <cshenton@uucom.com>, "'freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Inetd -l: log *all* connection attempts (not just valid svcs)
Message-ID:  <c=US%a=_%p=Financial_Allian%l=EXCHANGE-990923151603Z-13879@exchange.finall.com>

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sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1

will give you

(root@charon) /home/mikej/mount$grep Connection /var/log/debug
Sep 23 11:00:26 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:4456
from 127.0.0.1:53
Sep 23 11:00:53 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:00:57 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:01:58 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:02:03 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:03:04 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:03:08 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:03:20 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:137
from 127.0.0.1:4250
Sep 23 11:04:14 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:04:16 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:137
from 127.0.0.1:2554
Sep 23 11:04:19 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:05:19 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:05:25 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:06:23 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:06:23 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:137
from 127.0.0.1:4561
Sep 23 11:06:27 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063
Sep 23 11:07:28 charon /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
10.0.158.10:161 from 10.0.158.28:1063

--mikej


>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Chris Shenton [SMTP:cshenton@uucom.com]
>Sent:	Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:04 AM
>To:	freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
>Cc:	freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject:	Inetd -l: log *all* connection attempts (not just valid svcs)
>
>FreeBSD-3.2 inetd has a "-l" flag which logs all attempts:
>
>     If the -l option is specified, all connection attempts are logged,
>     whether they are allowed, denied or not wrapped at all. Otherwise, only
>     denied requests will be logged.
>
>but I gather it only logs attempts for ports which inetd.conf has
>configured for services.
>
>I'd like a way to log *all* network connection attempts, especially
>attempts to services which aren't defined. This would allow me to spot
>people scanning my host (where only a few services are enabled).
>
>Perhaps inetd isn't the right place to do this since it has no
>awareness of other services which might be running (e.g., httpd on
>port 80). Is this true? Or can inetd be bound to all unused ports to
>log attempts?
>
>If not I suppose the logical conclusion would be to run ipfw or
>ipfil... certainly doable, but not as trivial for users to enable as
>turning on an inetd flag.  Suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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