Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-21 Thread Nash Nipples
Here Guys: i believe that people who deployed netscreen are quite sure in what they are doing and a friendly notice should not sound like a complaint to u but instead become a solid ground to understanding what could go wrong. Ofcourse if they proudly told you that they ARE using the

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-21 Thread Clemens Renner
Hi Nash, I'm not sure I really understand what you're up to. In any case, let me clarify that my whole intention was to get a better understanding of what had happened there. In the end, I don't want my server to produce alarms at other people's sites. I tried to find the cause of the problem on

RE: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-21 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:43 AM To: Clemens Renner Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port scan from Apache? Clemens Renner wrote: Hi everyone, today I got

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-19 Thread Danil V. Gerun
Hello. The version of a user (behind their firewall) visiting your site, and badly configured stateful firewall timeout can be checked: just look at the logs of your Apache. But if it turns out that none of their users had touched your website at that time, then I think one more reason is quite

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Danil V. Gerun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, isn't it impossible for Apache (if it's running from non-root) to make connections from his port 80? Normally Apache doesn't make connections (unless you use mod_proxy, and in that case it doesn't use port 80 as the source port). It rather accepts

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Clemens Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank you for your sympathy and your thorough comments. :) I had that specific feeling when I read the mail for the first time. I'll try reducing the keepalive time to get rid of further complaints. Which means reducing the efficiency of your

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-19 Thread Nick Withers
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:34:46 +0200 (CEST) Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danil V. Gerun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, isn't it impossible for Apache (if it's running from non-root) to make connections from his port 80? Normally Apache doesn't make connections (unless you use

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-19 Thread Clemens Renner
Oliver Fromme wrote: I'll try reducing the keepalive time to get rid of further complaints. Which means reducing the efficiency of your service for _all_ users just because _one_ firewall admin has no clue. I wouldn't do that. In theory, you are right and it does sound like a bad

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Clemens Renner wrote: Hi everyone, today I got an e-mail from a company claiming that my server is doing port scans on their firewall machine. I found that hard to believe so I started checking the box. The company rep told me that the scan was originating at port 80 with destination port

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-18 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Tuesday, 2006-07-18 at 18:11:50 +0200, Clemens Renner wrote: [Root]system-alert-00016: Port scan! From $my-server-ip:80 to $their-server-ip:8254, proto TCP (zone Untrust, int ethernet1). Occurred 1 times. With IPFilter, I often see dangling FINs in the log. These occur when the TCP

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-18 Thread Christoph Schug
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006, Clemens Renner wrote: today I got an e-mail from a company claiming that my server is doing port scans on their firewall machine. I found that hard to believe so I started checking the box. Do you have mod_proxy or other modules with proxy functionality in your web

Re: Port scan from Apache?

2006-07-18 Thread Mike Andrews
Clemens Renner wrote: Hi everyone, today I got an e-mail from a company claiming that my server is doing port scans on their firewall machine. I found that hard to believe so I started checking the box. The company rep told me that the scan was originating at port 80 with destination port