RE: Question about IDS events

["Ben Conrad" <bconrad () COSTAR com>]

This is probably normal if your firewall rules allow connections to you
internal hosts.  You will see external addresses on the 10.113.128.50
server when you do a 'netstat'.  If that traffic is making it to your
internal box the IDS will inspect the packets.

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Koolk3 [mailto:koolk3 () gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 2:49 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Question about IDS events

I am seeing external IP addresses in few events on my internal IDS.
These are mostly port/network scan type events. I am wondering what the
reason is. Instead of the firewall address why am I seeing the
originating IP? Is this due to the nature of ICMP packets or does this
result from scans like Nmap?

Thanks for your responses.

Sample events:

TCP_Port_Scan   Medium  80.67.72.208    10.113.128.50
TCP_Port_Scan   Medium  80.67.72.208    10.113.128.50
TCP_Port_Scan   Medium  80.67.72.208    10.113.128.50
TCP_Port_Scan   Medium  80.67.72.208    10.119.0.50

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KoolK3

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