Re: Weird TCP flags?

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Am Fre, 2003-12-12 um 15.05 schrieb Jeffrey Laramie:
> On Friday 12 December 2003 08:13, Chris Brenton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 23:11, Ian Hunter wrote:
> > > Dec 11 22:58:52 lucy kernel: Fwd DMZ->Internet DROP: IN=eth1 OUT=ppp0
> > > SRC=192.168.254.242 DST=204.157.6.223 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63
> > > ID=56169 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=56319 WINDOW=32476 RES=0x00 ACK SYN
> > > URGP=0
> >
> > My "guess" is, you are receiving a SYN packet from 204.157.6.223. This
> > creates a state table entry with with a 60 second timer. Your system is
> > taking longer than 60 seconds to respond, so iptables is removing the
> > state table entry. Your system then responds causing the log entry shown
> > above.
> >
> 
> Hey Chris,
> 
> Is it normal for the server to send the ACK SYN to a high dport? I wouldn't 
> have expected that.
Yes, of course:

client:56319 -SYN->      server:80
client:56319 <-ACK/SYN- server:80
client:56319 -ACK->      server:80
Connection established. 

Cheers,

Ralf
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