Re: Firewall logging port 6346

From: David Hickman (dhickman@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/30/03

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    From: David Hickman <dhickman@yahoo.com>
    To: Jos Kirps|EducDesign <jos.kirps@educdesign.lu>, incidents@securityfocus.com
    Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:40:56 -0600
    
    

    i made the mistake of running gnutella over a year ago and I still
    have machines hitting my firewall.

    dhickman@yahoo.com

    Jos Kirps|EducDesign wrote:

    > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:21:44 +0100
    > Subject: Firewall logging port 6346
    > From: Jos Kirps|EducDesign <jos.kirps@educdesign.lu>
    > To: incidents@securityfocus.com
    >
    >
    > My firewall has logged 131.114.2.90 trying to connect to
    > my port 6346, this has been happening for quite some time
    > now, about once a minute.
    >
    > I know that this is the standard port for Gnutella (it also
    > says gnutella-svc), but I would like to know if this is just
    > a server trying to connect to the wrong machine (I'm using
    > a modem to connect to the internet, dynamic IP, maybe
    > someone was communicating with 131.114.2.90 before
    > I connected using this IP?), or could this be some malware?
    >
    > I traced the 131.114.2.90 machine back to ser-fib.unipi.it
    > (131.114.191.50), but traceroute couldn't get any further.
    > Could this mean that the network is slow / broken down
    > there in Italy (I suppose it's Italy).
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > Jos Kirps
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