I blocked all incoming and outgoing traffic on those two ports and that
cleaned up my logs quite a bit. You probably don't use those ports for
anything anyways.......
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From: ">owner-ale@ale.org [mailto:">owner-ale@ale.org]On Behalf Of Joe
Knapka
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 4:16 PM
To: Chris Egolf
Cc: ">ale@ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Interpreting IPChains logging
Chris Egolf wrote:
>
> After following the ipchains discussion last week, I decided to kill my
> NT sygate machine and start using IPMASQ for my NAT over a cable modem.
> Everything's working great, but last night I decided to try the
> 'semi-strong' ipchians ruleset found in the IPChains HOW TO.
>
> WOW! I was logging all sorts of stuff. So much, that my
> /var/log/messages was increasing about 10K/minute. I noticed that most
> of the rejected packets were the default input rule, so I turned logging
> off, but left it ON for things like spoofing. Now, it seems like I'm
> seeing lots of spoofing attacks, or maybe I'm just reading the logs
> wrong. Here's a sample from the logs:
>
> Mar 2 13:25:44 kenny kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth1 PROTO=17
> 192.168.0.5:137 192.168.0.255:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=53465 F=0x0000 T=128
> (#2)
> Mar 2 13:25:46 kenny kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth1 PROTO=17
> 192.168.0.111:138 192.168.0.255:138 L=239 S=0x00 I=56325 F=0x0000 T=128
> (#2)
> Mar 2 13:26:10 kenny kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth1 PROTO=17
> 192.168.0.112:137 192.168.0.255:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=24902 F=0x0000 T=32
> (#2)
> Mar 2 13:27:21 kenny kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth1 PROTO=17
> 192.168.0.104:137 192.168.0.255:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=13873 F=0x0000 T=128
> (#2)
> Mar 2 13:27:41 kenny kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth1 PROTO=17
> 192.168.0.151:137 192.168.0.255:137 L=78 S=0x00 I=17423 F=0x0000 T=128
> (#2)
>
> The #2 rule referred to above is:
> ipchains -A input -i $extint -s $intnet -d 0.0.0.0/0 -l -j REJECT
The source and destination ports are NetBIOS nameservice
(137) and datagram (138), and the NS query is a broadcast.
So this could indicate someone is trying a general
attack on Windows browsers. Or it could just be
someone with a misconfigured system spewing local
NetBIOS traffic out of the wrong interface.
HTH,
-- Joe
> Anyone have know where I can find a good source for interpreting these
> logs? Should I be concerned, or am I being overly paranoid?
>
> Thanks.
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