You're getting 'geowanked'.  Your firewall appears on http://www.wigle.net/
Also reference http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/
I prefer http://chicken.burri.to

On 06/08/04 11pm, Larry Price wrote:
> I've been building a web/dns/mail server for my house
> and started off by setting up firewalling
> 
> while debugging the firewall ruleset I was running tcpdump on both the
> wdm and on the (orange) workstation so that I could see both sides of
> certain transactions.
> 
> The whole setup is behind an actiontec DSL modem that does NAT and dhcp,
> using the web based interface on the modem I told it that the
> wdm[1] was a DMZ host and should get _all_ incoming requests.
> 
> At this point I began to watch the packets scroll by as various worms etc.
> tried to take advantage of services (ports 445 and 1026 seem to be popular
> today) on vulnerable hosts.
> 
> At this point I took a short break to read slashdot, after reading a few
> linked postings I backgrounded the browser and went back to testing
> connections and figuring out why things weren't yet working,
> that's when I noticed something funny.
> 
> the orange box was issuing requests to port 80 of some host out on the
> internet, without my intending for it to do so. I eventually satisfied
> myself that it was something in firefox, because if I killed firefox it
> would stop, and then start once I reloaded that browser and page..
> 
> Does anyone know what might be up with the host that resolves to
> http://steak.burri.to ???
> 
> And how can i make reasonably sure that it was (as I think)
> a bit of javascript or an iFrame Meta tag, and not someone hiding a
> trojan that posts my keystrokes to a snarfserver and allows bulgarian
> teenagers to buy leather jackets with my bank account.
> 
> just one of those nightmarishly annoying things that makes modern life
> interesting (tm)
> 
> [1]wdm : web, dns, mail; the alternate arrangement is right out.
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