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Date:      Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:52:43 -0500
From:      "Norman Walek" <njwalek@hotmail.com>
To:        mtech@buffnet.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages
Message-ID:  <Law9-F4P8yJrNKBqujs000056b2@hotmail.com>

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edit /etc/syslog.conf appropriately
kernel.debug for said example
>Nov 25 03:09:56 asia /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 202.79.180.131:80

njw

"Mohsin Rahman" <mtech@buffnet.net> wrote in message 
news:<005d01c3b2d1$2cd8caa0$6213f6cd@mohsin.lucky.freebsd.questions>...
>sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1
>sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1
>
>turns em on and
>
>sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=0
>sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=0
>
>turns them off. Hope this helps.
>
>Anyone know how to add a time/date to this log entry and which file to
>modify?
>
>--
>Mohsin Rahman
>mtech@buffnet.net
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>
>To: "Spades" <spades@galaxynet.org>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:28 PM
>Subject: Re: Connection attempt to TCP messages in /var/log/messages
>
>
> > On Monday 24 November 2003 11:11 am, Spades wrote:
> > > I did a tail -f /var/log/messages and got all these..
> > >
> > > previously before my cvs and recompile kernel to 4.9 stable
> > > it didn't have below.. now it does..
> > >
> > > Nov 25 03:09:56 asia /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP
>  202.79.180.131:80
> > > from 65.217.41.66:1681
> > > Nov 25 03:09:58 asia /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP
>  202.79.180.130:80
> > > from 24.136.234.77:4059
> > >
> > > question.. how to stop seeing them in /var/log/messages?
> > >
> >
> > Buy a hardware firewall that you place in front of your computer. You
>  probably
> > have a log option in your firewall and someone is trying to connect to
>  your
> > web server. You could turn off logging but I like to know who is trying 
>to
> > connect to my systems. This is especially true when I am not running a
> > service and they are probing to find out if I am.
> >
> > Kent
> >
> > -- > Kent Stewart
> > Richland, WA
> >
> > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
> >
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