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>> I ran 'netstat -lp' on a system of mine and found a couple of strange |
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>> things. |
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>> tcp 0 0 1.2.3.4.st:https *:* LISTEN |
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>> 2929/apache2 |
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>> udp 0 0 1.2.3.4.stat:ntp *:* |
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>> 3203/ntpd |
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>> 1.2.3.4 is not the IP address that actually appeared, but I don't |
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>> recognize the one that did appear. An IP lookup says it is in the |
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>> Czech Republic and I'm in the US. I did a grep of my system looking |
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>> for the IP and found two recent "Relay access denied" messages in the |
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>> mail log from a sender with an email address like |
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>> "user@×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.com" where myhost.com is my host's |
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>> domain. |
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>> The other strange item was the following entry repeated over and over |
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>> under UNIX sockets: |
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>> warning, got bogus unix line. |
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>> Can anyone shed some light on either of these? |
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> I suspect your IP address is 4.3.2.1, and your ISP gives it a reverse DNS |
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> of 1.2.3.4.static.reverse.myhst.com. |
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You're right of course. :) I need to read up on reverse DNS. |
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> Try netstat -lpn |
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Ah, so much better. Thank you. Still getting those "warning, got |
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bogus unix line." lines instead of UNIX sockets though. |
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- Grant |
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