Hello,

My server has been scanned and/or attacked a lot on the iptables lately.   
OSSEC interprets these as a level 2 "unknown error somewhere in the 
system." Until I figured out what it meant I was very confused. Seems the 
iptables decoder does not work on my server. If you have a decoder for this 
I can add it would be much appreciated:

SAMPLE ERROR
May 23 06:18:22 webserver kernel: iptables denied: IN=eth0 OUT= 
MAC=fe:fd:ad:ff:ed:12:84:78:ac:57:aa:c1:08:00 SRC=93.174.93.51 
DST=[MY.HOST.IP] LEN=40 TOS=0x08 PREC=0x20 TTL=244 ID=54321 PROTO=TCP 
SPT=39305 DPT=22644 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 


What confuses me even more however is that OSSEC is dropping/denying my own 
host server IP as can be seen in the active-responses.log. Is this normal? 
I didn't think I needed to actually whitelist the server host IP. I thought 
previously that the internal IP address which was installed there 
automatically was sufficient. On a side note, this doesn't appear to affect 
my websites or any other function at all. So I'm not sure what is happening.

SAMPLE FROM ACTIVE-RESPONSES LOG
Fri May 23 01:43:34 EDT 2014 
/var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh delete - [MY.HOST.IP] 
1400823155.116483 20101
Fri May 23 02:07:26 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/host-deny.sh 
add - [MY.HOST.IP] 1400825246.123855 20101


Please advise. Thank you.


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