Re: Logs showing GET /.hash=...

From: Jim Dueltgen (jimdat_private)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 10:27:52 PDT

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    I've been working recently with Cisco's Network Based Application 
    Recognition (NBAR) trying to keep Kazaa traffic under control in a 
    multi-tenant installation and I've only ever found this snippet in 
    the documentation:
    
    2.  KaZaA version 2 might use port 80 to get around the Firewall. You 
    can control it be adding
    
    match protocol http url \.hash=*
    
    I'm not sure about the \ vs / as it shows in your logs and as one 
    would expect to see in a URL but the above is what's in Cisco's 
    documentation.  My understanding is that the actual download of a 
    file via kazaa v2 happens over port 80 in an attempt to get around 
    passive packet filtering firewalls.
    
    Regards,
    
    Jim Dueltgen
       LMi.net
    
    At 9:54 AM -0400 4/30/03, Keith Bergen wrote:
    >I have seen log entries in the form:
    >dormtw.isu.edu.tw - - [29/Apr/2003:22:04:17 -
    >0400] "GET /.hash=8a8a30842bc6698dd1cbcb31191fc9e76018ea4c
    >HTTP/1.1" 404 323
    >dormtw.isu.edu.tw - - [29/Apr/2003:22:04:22 -
    >0400] "GET /.hash=355bcee01e59b87d9cc33d4ae3cc8edf5f022d2a
    >HTTP/1.1" 404 323
    >dormtw.isu.edu.tw - - [29/Apr/2003:22:04:24 -
    >0400] "GET /.hash=51f6ec2b496fa6fac83a88d7978321c7b64a5969
    >HTTP/1.1" 404 323
    >
    >I looked at past posts, and one indicates that this might be
    >KaZaa traffic. The other post indicated it was "WinMX". Can
    >somebody expand on this? For example, what is WinMX? Also,
    >why would KaZaa connect to port 80?
    >
    >Thanks,
    >Keith.
    >
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