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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:24:32
Message-Id: 201201221822.45549.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests by Grant
1 On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 17:54:29 Grant wrote:
2
3 > > `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append
4 > > the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output
5 > > looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.
6 > >
7 > > while true; do
8 > > netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' >> mystery.log;
9 > > sleep 1;
10 > > done;
11 > >
12 > > You'll want to change the port -- I tested to make sure that was really
13 > > logging my Thunderbird connections.
14 >
15 > I'm still getting the blocked outbound requests to port 3680 on my
16 > firewall and I'm running the above script (changed 993 to 3680) on the
17 > local system indicated by SRC in the firewall log, but mystery.log
18 > remains empty. I tested the script with other ports and it seems to
19 > be working fine.
20 >
21 > Also the MAC indicated in the firewall log is 14 blocks long and the
22 > local system in question has a MAC address 6 blocks long according to
23 > ifconfig, but the 6 blocks from ifconfig do match 6 of the blocks
24 > reported by the firewall.
25 >
26 > Does this make sense to anyone?
27
28 Does not make sense to me, sorry. :-(
29
30 Have you tried running the script on lsof instead?
31
32
33 > I installed and ran rkhunter and this was the only warning I couldn't
34 > disregard:
35 >
36 > Warning: The command '/usr/sbin/rkhunter' has been replaced and is not
37 > a script: /usr/sbin/rkhunter: POSIX shell script, ASCII text
38 > executable, with very long lines
39
40 This warning comes up the first time after rkhunter runs --update for its .dat
41 files. I don't know why this is so - but I have noticed it happening for the
42 last couple of versions at least.
43 --
44 Regards,
45 Mick

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