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Re: strange log


From: Dave Ockwell-Jenner <doj () solar-nexus com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:34:09 -0400

Emilio Casbas wrote:

Hi,

We've seen in the firewall's log of transparent proxy this messege from different ips repeteadly :

Apr 21 21:28:55 moria kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer external_ip/80 shrinks window 1466359669:1466360884. Repaired.

We've googling, but we dont know if is an attack or a bad negotiation.
Any suggestion?

I've seen this on some Linux webservers behind a Big IP load-balancer. More info on the message itself here:-

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=a402f9.4j1.ln%40barfly

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Dave Ockwell-Jenner
Solar Nexus Solutions
http://www.solar-nexus.com/


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