Re: How to create rule from log file information ?

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Mart Frauenlob wrote:
> On 25.01.2010 19:49, netfilter-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   
>> On 25/Jan/10 18:32, J. Bakshi wrote:
>>     
>>> I have collected the iptables log against nmap scan. Like
>>>
>>> [omitted almost identical log lines]
>>>
>>> Can I make rule-set to prevent the above scan from the info collected
>>> at the log ?
>>> Kindly enlighten me. Then I can make more rule sets from the log.
>>>       
>> I'm not an nmap expert, but AFAIK nmap is designed to avoid just that. I
>> have installed some logging iptables rules, similar to the ones in your
>> previous message (from Arno's iptables scripts, IIRC) and sometimes some
>> of them fire, presumably because inappropriate flags had been given to
>> nmap.
>>
>> To recognize a scan, one may look at almost simultaneous TCP syn
>> occurring to several nearby ports/ addresses, and not followed by an
>> ack. This would require specific connection tracking code that I've
>> never heard about. At any rate, you /have/ to respond to syn requests,
>> because they may be legit. You may recognize that they were scans by
>> analyzing the logs some time later, presumably for banning the relevant
>> IPs from further accessing your server...
>>
>>     
>
> I have not tried them yet, but there is are extensions in
> xtables-addons. Might worth trying:
>
>  
Thanks for the info.  Is there anyone already working with the module ?
Please share your experience.

Thanks

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