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From: Ralf Spenneberg <lists@spenneberg.org>
To: Jeffrey Laramie <JALaramie@Loudoun-Fairfax.com>
Cc: Netfilter <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Weird TCP flags?
Date: 12 Dec 2003 15:26:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071239162.1693.176.camel@kermit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312120905.05053.JALaramie@Loudoun-Fairfax.com>

Am Fre, 2003-12-12 um 15.05 schrieb Jeffrey Laramie:
> On Friday 12 December 2003 08:13, Chris Brenton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 23:11, Ian Hunter wrote:
> > > Dec 11 22:58:52 lucy kernel: Fwd DMZ->Internet DROP: IN=eth1 OUT=ppp0
> > > SRC=192.168.254.242 DST=204.157.6.223 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63
> > > ID=56169 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=56319 WINDOW=32476 RES=0x00 ACK SYN
> > > URGP=0
> >
> > My "guess" is, you are receiving a SYN packet from 204.157.6.223. This
> > creates a state table entry with with a 60 second timer. Your system is
> > taking longer than 60 seconds to respond, so iptables is removing the
> > state table entry. Your system then responds causing the log entry shown
> > above.
> >
> 
> Hey Chris,
> 
> Is it normal for the server to send the ACK SYN to a high dport? I wouldn't 
> have expected that.
Yes, of course:

client:56319 -SYN->      server:80
client:56319 <-ACK/SYN- server:80
client:56319 -ACK->      server:80
Connection established. 

Cheers,

Ralf
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-12 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-12  4:11 Weird TCP flags? Ian Hunter
2003-12-12  4:46 ` Jeffrey Laramie
2003-12-12  4:52   ` Ian Hunter
2003-12-12  5:20     ` Jeffrey Laramie
2003-12-12  4:51 ` Jeffrey Laramie
     [not found] ` <200312120105.01557.Alistair Tonner <>
2003-12-12 12:26   ` John A. Sullivan III
2003-12-12 13:14     ` Ian Hunter
2003-12-12 13:32       ` John A. Sullivan III
2003-12-12 13:59         ` Antony Stone
2003-12-12 14:50           ` John A. Sullivan III
2003-12-12 14:37             ` Antony Stone
2003-12-12 16:37           ` Ian Hunter
2003-12-12 13:13 ` Chris Brenton
2003-12-12 13:26   ` Ian Hunter
2003-12-12 14:05   ` Jeffrey Laramie
2003-12-12 13:57     ` Antony Stone
2003-12-12 14:21     ` John A. Sullivan III
2003-12-12 14:26     ` Ralf Spenneberg [this message]
2003-12-12 14:41       ` Jeffrey Laramie
2003-12-12 14:38         ` Antony Stone
2003-12-12 16:05           ` Jeffrey Laramie
2003-12-12 17:41             ` Chris Brenton
2003-12-12 21:21             ` Antony Stone
2003-12-13 14:00 ` Akos Szalkai
2003-12-13 14:41   ` Antony Stone
2003-12-13 14:50     ` Antony Stone
2003-12-13 14:57       ` Akos Szalkai
2003-12-13 14:53     ` Akos Szalkai

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