Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:05:23 +0100 From: Beck David <dbeck@freesoft.hu> To: "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Strange things on my computer / Help Message-ID: <1BD5A68BE9E8D211BBE8006094B9EB73E982@netfinity.freesoft.hu>
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Beck David <dbeck@freesoft.hu> writes: > > Beck David <dbeck@freesoft.hu> writes: > > > - but the kernel complains in every 10 minutes for some _out_ going > > > ICMP packets, which goes to two hosts. > > What kind of ICMP packets? > - The ICMP type is 3.3: port unreachable Oh - that's totally benign. Some box is trying to connect to an unbound port on your box; if it's a local box, it's probably a simple configuration error. :: Yep, actually I ipfw out all the udp traffic except dns. :: Am I correct if I think that if it is denied by ipfw it shouldn't generate :: an ICMP reply ? :: Another strange thing I found, that uptime which I run periodically :: from cron, suddenly started bitching , because it didn't find /dev//root (??). :: After I made world :) , it stopped complaining. :: Another thing: the make buildworld failed a couple of times because of an unresolved :: external: realhostname at fingerd and ftpd. :: Then I started to figure out, what happened. But before I really did something it :: suddenly become OK. May be it has no meaning, I become paranoid a bit ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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