IPTABLES logging (was: NTP, ntpdate and ISP-based firewall)

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Mar 10 13:27:09 UTC 2004


Don Levey wrote:

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>Interestingly, shortly after I enabled these logs, I'm noticing two
>logged block messages.  However, they are from addresses I didn't think
>I was blocking.  The addresses in question are:
>	218.9.130.252
>	218.72.107.86
>but the only rule I have that's even close is:
>-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -s 218.148.121.0/8 -j LOG --log-level WARN
>--log-prefix IPTABLES-REJECT-09- --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options
>-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -s 218.148.121.0/8 -j REJECT
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You are blocking the entire 218.0.0.0 network.

>(I've added numbers to the prefixes for debugging purposes, but so far I
>haven't logged another message).  I would imagine that these messages
>wouldn't be from the rules above, as the addresses don't match. 
>However, the overall blanket blocks at the end aren't logged, and the
>outside firewall seems to log other accesses to that server which are
>*not* getting logged but are also not on permitted ports (in particular,
>135).  Any thoughts?
> -Don
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