Many not-new hits from port 80 when surfing their site

Many not-new hits from port 80 when surfing their site

[Andrew S. Johnson]

Several times now, I have seen a lot of entries in syslog which
seem to be associated with browsing a particular site, but for
some reason get dropped as "not-new".  For example, when
browsing the thinkgeek site, messages like this appear maybe
50 times, with slightly different destination port numbers:

Dec 29 06:39:45 IPTABLES NOT-NEW-IN: SRC=66.35.250.160 \
     LEN=48 TTL=45 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=4785 \
     WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0 

Always from port 80 on the remote machine, but the source
address is a site I'm accessing.  What's causing this, should
I be concerned, and can/should I fix it?  The rules that produce
this is (in iptables-restore format):

-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags ! SYN,RST,ACK SYN \
     -m state --state NEW -j LOG --log-prefix "IPTABLES NOT-NEW-IN: "
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --tcp-flags ! SYN,RST,ACK SYN \
     -m state --state NEW -j DROP

If I already have a session open with the remote site, why are
these not being associated?  Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy Johnson

Re: Many not-new hits from port 80 when surfing their site

[Chris Brenton]

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 02:11, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> Several times now, I have seen a lot of entries in syslog which
> seem to be associated with browsing a particular site, but for
> some reason get dropped as "not-new". 

Please see the archive. This has been asked and answered about 3 times
in the last month. Short answer, its a time-out issue during session
tear down and not something to worry about. ;-)

C