are these BIND errors....

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 02:28:44PM -0400, James A Griffin wrote:
> 
> Gary Kline wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:27:51PM -0400, James A Griffin wrote:
> > > Gary Kline wrote:
> [snip]
> > > >
> > > > Jun 27 22:18:15 tao /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 216.39.168.248:53 from 216.136.204.119:53
> > > > Jun 27 22:18:15 tao /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:1123
> > > > Jun 27 22:21:09 tao /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 216.39.168.248:53 from 207.224.243.50:53
> > > > Jun 27 22:21:09 tao /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 216.39.168.248:53 from 207.224.243.50:53
> > > >
> > >
> > > No, it is some form of packet filter (firewall) or intrusion detection
> > > system (IDS) telling you about events.  Port 53 is named and port
> > > 512/udp is biff.
> > >
> > 
> >         Strange thing is that I have no packet filtering going on
> >         (( at least none that I  have installed so far!)).
> > 
> >         What IDS could be reporting thses kind of Connection attempts?
> > 
> 
> I do not recognize the message format; use 'snort' myself.  I thought it
> might be 'portsentry', but assuming the documentation is accurate, it
> uses a different format.  Could it be from tcpwrappers or the new
> version (IIRC xinitd)? What operating system are you running?
> 

	I just upgraded to FreeBSD 4.3.  In named.conf, I have lots of
	logging {} categories set.  Probably these attempt messages are
	coming from there.   I haven't grep'd thru the BIND9 code...
	yet.

	gary


> 

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