RE: Packets destined for ports 6970 and 6972

["Bryan Allerdice" <bryan_allerdice () yahoo com>]

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Ports 6970-7170 are used by to send advertisements to RealPlayer.

I'd say that the people behind your firewall run RealPlayer, and your
firewall is sparing them from useless ads.

BRYAN

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From: Elliott Perrin [mailto:eperrin () bigorbit com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:20 AM
To: INCIDENTS () securityfocus com
Subject: Packets destined for ports 6970 and 6972


For the past two days I have seen connection attempts to my firewall
to
UDP ports 6970 and 6972 in the order of about 3500 attempts from
each of about 10 different IP's.

Here is a quick snip.... (note I log in vain hence the reason these
show up in my
messages)

Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6970 from
63.228.31.233:6972
Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6970 from
63.228.31.233:6972
Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6972 from
63.228.31.233:6972
Jul 18 10:00:06 fw1 last message repeated 13 times

Today's messages log which started at Midnight is already at 35,000
lines
with the same as above only from different hosts. There are no
services
running on my firewall, all servers run in a DMZ.

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this activity and has an idea
about
what it may be, if this is a new attack or worm in the wild. My box
is running
FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE and IPFILTER.

Cheers,
_________________________________
Elliott Perrin
Senior Systems Administrator
Biographix Corporation
eperrin () bigorbit com
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