F13 Firewall and gateway router port forwarding
On 10/06/2010 04:54 AM, Doron Bar Zeev wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 07:28, JD <jd1008@gmail.com
> <mailto:jd1008@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I have a router/gateway which forwards a few ports
> to my machine. Port 995 is absolutely not one of them.
> I checked and rechecked.
>
> My F13 iptables is instrumented to print a "Dropped" message
> for packets that it drops.
> So I was surprised to see many messages like this:
>
> Dropped by firewall: IN=wlan0 OUT=
> MAC=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:gg:hh:ii:jj:kk:ll:08:00 SRC=74.125.127.109
> DST=10.1.1.8 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=52856 PROTO=TCP
> SPT=995
> DPT=57892 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
>
> Port 995 is for SSL'ed pop protocol.
>
> I even used another machine and tried to telnet to the
> router's public IP address, port 995
>
> telnet my-router-public-ip-address 995
>
> to see if it would forward the packet to my machine.
> It did not and the firewall did not even see the packet.
>
> How can this happen? The packet obviously arrived from the gmail
> pop server,
> unless a clever hacker spoofed the source IP.
> I do not understand how any server can worm a packet to my LAN
> address,
> when the router's per-LAN-client dedicated firewalls
> do not provide for forwarding this port to any machine on the LAN.
> (yes - this router provides a separately configurable firewall and
> port
> forewading table for each LAN client) -
>
> Is it possible that the router itself got hacked?
>
>
>
> Since it's the source port that is 995 it seems google is trying to
> respond to your computer which started a communication with them with
> destination port of 995 and destination address of google.
That is strange, because I have been getting my email just fine. No
problems at all.
Well, I'll keep watching the logs to see how often it happens.
Thanks for the explanation.
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