what is this probe??

E Frank Ball III frankb at efball.com
Thu Jul 6 15:02:10 PDT 2000


I got this probe today.  It is a ICMP connection to port 13?
Anybody know what they were trying to do?   I've only seen ICMP
connections to port 0 before. 

Security Violations
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Jul  6 13:43:15 zouave kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 
172.31.105.12:3 209.204.172.XXX:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=54743 F=0x0000 T=48 (#3) 

Also the source address is a private network address, the firewall rule
that caught it was a one I put in for IP address spoofing.

   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com
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