Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 14:16:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are these connect attempts? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980809141555.1348A-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <12622.902689735@verdi.nethelp.no>
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Ahh.. I understand. Thanks. -- Jay On Sun, 9 Aug 1998 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: >> >traceroute. >> >> Did that. > >I guess I was a bit terse. What *you* are seeing is somebody running >traceroute against your machine. > >> Except for the 195.8.97.66, which is ns5.isi.net, they all >> seen to come from shortcut.???.isi.net. They all trace back to a >> running machine. What are they looking for and what do they expect to >> find at those high port numbers? > >That's precisely the point - they *don't* expect to find anything at >those high port numbers on your machine. The high port numbers are used >to minimize the probability that traceroute will collide with a running >application. > >traceroute normally starts at port (32768 + 666) and runs up from there. > >Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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