On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:46:42 -0300 zottmann <zottmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi !! > > We are seeing a lot of packets being blocked at our firewall, coming from > our webserver, port 80, going to the several hosts at the Internet, at high > ports, with both SET and ACK set. > > It seems that these packets are answers from our webserver to connections > estabilished to it, and, for some reason, their state is not being kept. > > How can I track this problem? > > We are using iptables 1.3.1, kernel 2.6.11.12, in a Fedora Core 3 machine. I'm facing the same problem on port 3128. I guess that may be some kind of virus/worm that use ports like 80,1080,8080,3128 for spam purpose. They use any HTTP port to connect on mail servers and send bulk email. My conntrack table was getting flooded and I set 2 rules, but the problem keeps on. iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP iptables -I FORWARD -d ${MY_NETWORK} -p tcp --dport 3128 -m state --state NEW -j DROP any effective solution would be appreciated. thanks -- Djalma Fadel Junior Diretor Técnico Ferasoft Corporation Ltda +55 (19) 3542-3490 dfadel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx