Re: Port 31336 question

From: Jeff Gordon (Jeff_Gordon24@excite.com)
Date: 02/20/03 

From: "Jeff Gordon" <Jeff_Gordon24@excite.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:18:35 GMT

Thanks to all for their help and positive comments. After talking with a
friend over seas who look at my log, he was able to determine that is was
probably a user before me that had that IP assigned before it was giving to
me by the DHCP Server. He said he felt sorry for that poor soul.

"Jeff Gordon" <Jeff_Gordon24@excite.com> wrote in message
news:EX13a.24$tS1.10746050@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> After reviewing my firewall log, I've noticed for the last 48 hours that
> someone has been trying port 31336 on my firewall. It first started out to
> be once or twice every hour the first 12 hours then increased to 3-5 an
hour
> and then this am, they were trying to knock the *** out of it! Like every
> 30 seconds. Can someone tell me why? What is with this port. I have a
> Linksys router with SPI On and WAN Request blocked on the router. So, if
my
> router is not sending reply's back to request, why would someone want to
> keep trying this port. I am NEW to firewalls and how this is all done.
Just
> want to protect my home computers. The IP's were all random, but was able
to
> determined that for the most part were all in the 202-211 and 61-64 first
> octet, which I believe is Taiwan. If someone could give me a little
insite,
> I would greatly appreciate it and if somewhere did make a connection,
would
> the Linksys log show this? I'm using the LogViewer Software to monitor
> traffic. Thanks to all for any help.
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