RE: SYN/ACK to port 53

From: Steve Halligan (agent33at_private)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 14:28:33 PDT

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    this look familar?
    http://www.whitehats.com/library/worms/lion/index.html
    
    > OK, this is beginning to drive me nuts.  Since about February 
    > of this year,
    > our firewall has been periodically hit with what can only be a probe,
    > attack, whatever to port 53.  Every time the scan exhibits 
    > the same behavior
    > and is from the same set of IP addresses.
    > 
    > A SYN/ACK packet is sent to TCP port 53.  No SYN was sent 
    > from our system.
    > The SYN & ACK sequence numbers appear to be random, but the 
    > ACK is always 1
    > less than the SYN.  Our system responds with a RST to the ACK.
    > 
    



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