Repeated connection attempts in daily output

Greetings all, In my daily security run output the last few days I'm getting hundreds of connection attempts from this particular IP as shown: Connection attempt to TCP 217.xxx.xxx.xxx:6881 from 12.215.41.59:1519 flags:0x02 All appear to be unsuccessful BTW. Traceroute shows this to be a

Re: Repeated connection attempts in daily output

On Saturday February 7 2004 at 10:44, Mathew Seaman responded: On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Colin Raven wrote: Connection attempt to TCP 217.xxx.xxx.xxx:6881 from 12.215.41.59:1519 flags:0x02 The well known ports number list from iana.org shows port 1519 as follows: vpvd

Re: Strange connect attempts

Under FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE on i386 I get lots of kernel messages like this one: Feb 7 12:38:01 neuromancer kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:49383 /etc/services has this to say on Port 512/udp: biff512/udpcomsat #used by mail system to