Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
If the machine is running linux, then 'watch lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out the user and (possibly) PID of the connection, but I don't know. lsof -i is

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 17:54:29 Grant wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. while true; do netstat -antp | grep ':993 '

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/22/2012 12:54 PM, Grant wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. while true; do netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' mystery.log;

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
`watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' mystery.log;    sleep 1;  done; You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
`watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat -antp | grep ':993 '  mystery.log;    sleep 1;  done; You'll want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
`watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' mystery.log;    sleep 1;  done; You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 19:29:47 Grant wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. while true; do netstat -antp | grep ':993

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/22/2012 02:29 PM, Grant wrote: Since my local firewall is rejecting the outbound requests, the time elapsed between the request and the block should be very short. Is it possible the 'sleep 1' portion of the script is causing the failure to log the connection request? The outbound

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Grant
I'm still getting the blocked outbound requests to port 3680 on my firewall and I'm running the above script (changed 993 to 3680) on the local system indicated by SRC in the firewall log, but mystery.log remains empty.  I tested the script with other ports and it seems to be working fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 20:26:13 Grant wrote: I just started running this on the router: tcpdump -i eth1 -n | grep the.offending.ip.address where eth1 is my LAN interface. I figure this will tell me if any requests are being made to the offending IP, including any that aren't being logged

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 23, 2012 12:57 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: - 8 snip Also the MAC indicated in the firewall log is 14 blocks long and the local system in question has a MAC address 6 blocks long according to ifconfig, but the 6 blocks from ifconfig do match 6 of the blocks reported by

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 23, 2012 12:10 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 23, 2012 12:57 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: - 8 snip Also the MAC indicated in the firewall log is 14 blocks long and the local system in question has a MAC address 6 blocks long according to

[gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Grant
My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP. How can I find out more about what's going on? Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 January 2012, at 18:34, Grant wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP. How can I find out more about what's going on? Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I have an old laptop here that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Grant
My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP.  How can I find out more about what's going on?  Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I have an old laptop here that I have a second (cardbus) network card in.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 Jan 2012 19:18:59 Grant wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP. How can I find out more about what's going on? Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I have an old laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Grant
My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP.  How can I find out more about what's going on?  Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I have an old laptop here that I have a second (cardbus) network

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP.  How can I find out more about what's going on?  Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Grant
My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP.  How can I find out more about what's going on?  Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I have an old laptop here that I have a second (cardbus) network

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: If the machine is running linux, then 'watch lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out the user

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 Jan 2012 23:34:12 Grant wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP. How can I find out more about what's going on? Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I have an old

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Grant
If the machine is running linux, then 'watch lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out the user and (possibly) PID of the connection, but I don't know. lsof -i is

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21.01.2012 01:12, Grant wrote: If the machine is running linux, then 'watch lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/20/2012 07:12 PM, Grant wrote: If the machine is running linux, then 'watch lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out the user and (possibly) PID of the connection,

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Grant
If the machine is running linux, then 'watch lsof -n|grep TCP|grep 3680' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question that logs out the user and (possibly) PID of the connection, but I don't know. lsof -i is

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP.  How can I find out more about what's going on?  Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21.01.2012 02:39, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP. How can I find out more about what's going on?