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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UDP entries do not list ctstate
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:39:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BA255C.1080801@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802190111280.26274@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Hi Jan,

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> to figure out what Netfilter actually does, we add a rule to match 
> incoming DNS replies for demonstrational purposes:
> 
> 	iptables -I INPUT -p udp --sport 53 -m conntrack --ctstate 
> 	ESTABLISHED
> 
> as one would expect, ESTABLISHED matches. Now, after the DNS reply has 
> been received, running `conntrack -L | grep udp` does not show the 
> string "ESTABLISHED" at all, even if I run it within the UDP conntrack 
> timeout. Glitch/Bug in /usr/sbin/conntrack?

The output is compatible with /proc/net/ip_conntrack which doesn't show
the generic states for UDP. Instead, it shows the flag assured when we
have seen traffic in both directions.

BTW, you can also `use conntrack -L -p udp' to filter so you don't need
to use grep for this particular case.

-- 
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-19  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19  0:13 UDP entries do not list ctstate Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-19  0:39 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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