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Re: Odd connection attempts from many addresses


From: John Bland <shrike () cmp liv ac uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:48:49 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, James Hoagland wrote:

Hello John,

Have you looked into whether your host X is advertising a service on
the ports in question?  A game server or some such.

Yes. It turns out that 'X' was running an AudioGalaxy satellite and the
connections appear to be P2P requests (the src and dest ports match the
particular protocols) which matches the random nature of the hosts and the
seemingly centrally managed port numbers they were trying to access.

Cheers,
       JB

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John Bland M.Phys (Hons) AMInstP /    \ PhD Student & Sys Admin
Email: j.bland at cmp.liv.ac.uk /      \ Condensed Matter Group
http://ringtail.cmp.liv.ac.uk/ /        \ Liverpool  University
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