Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 06 Aug 2012, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > I prefer the alternative. tcpdump is a much smaller package. :) > > So, I did this for several minutes and looked at the log. Doesn't > look like it needs much technical expertise to interpret. The > content of the packets is printed in plain text and

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-06 Thread Paul Zimmerman
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: >Alternatively you may use 'tcpdump' instead of wireshark. >Run "tcpdump -s 1600 -i any -w /tmp/output.tcpdump.bin >host 239.255.255.250", and stop it with ^C after 5-10s. >It will save the packet dump to /tmp/output.tcpdump.bin, >which you should gzip or xz

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:04:59 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 03:20:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:51:53 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> >> First, a server is usually managed by people that know

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-05 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 03:20:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:51:53 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: > >> First, a server is usually managed by people that knows how this stuff > > > > This is not true anymore. > > Sure it is.

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:51:53 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> > We've cleaned up a few work. We are not sure how the payload got in >> > (best guess: browser). I am not allowed to disclose any more data >> > than this. >> >> What?! Are you say

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:48:35 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > >> I've never read about linux boxes being used as bots, can you please > >> indicate any report/stats about that fact? > > > > We've cleaned

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:48:35 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> I've never read about linux boxes being used as bots, can you please >> indicate any report/stats about that fact? > > We've cleaned up a few work. We are not sure how the payload go

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:40:53 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: > >> > I know the constant connection is a multicast address, but what is > >> > this other stuff? It looks like something is broken/misconfigured o

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:40:53 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> > I know the constant connection is a multicast address, but what is >> > this other stuff? It looks like something is broken/misconfigured or >> > an outright hack of the Debian reposi

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > JulHer writes: > > >239.255.255.250 maybe is SSDP > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol >The other > >stuff I don't know, > That's a possibility, I guess. But it's not an intermittent > or occasional thing. And it doesn

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > I know the constant connection is a multicast address, but what is this > > other stuff? It looks like something is broken/misconfigured or an > > outright hack of the Debian repository has occurred and many Debian > > systems are now part of a botnet. > >

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:56:14 -0700, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > Today I downloaded a large group of updates, including Open Office and > some dns-related utilities. Once they were applied, some strange network > activity started on my machine. It keeps sending and receiving about > 10-14k per second b

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-04 Thread Paul Zimmerman
JulHer writes: >239.255.255.250 maybe is SSDP >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol >The other >stuff I don't know, That's a possibility, I guess. But it's not an intermittent or occasional thing. And it doesn't run for a bit and then stop. This is a constant 10-

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-03 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Paul. You wrote: > My Debian box is staying offline until I find out what is going on. You can simply allow only desired output traffic - rather than staying off line - until You solve Your problem OR everafter. Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-03 Thread JulHer
El vie, 03-08-2012 a las 10:56 -0700, Paul Zimmerman escribió: > I installed iftop and it says there is a constant connection to > 239.255.255.250 and various transient connections to sites like > vc-in-f106-1e100.net -- which turns out to be owned by Google -- and > other sites like something call

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-03 Thread Darren Baginski
03.08.2012, 23:06, "Frank McCormick" : > Sorry first reply went to his email address - > > On 03/08/12 01:56 PM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > >>  Today I downloaded a large group of updates, including Open Office and some >> dns-related utilities. Once they were applied, >>  some strange network acti

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Sorry first reply went to his email address - On 03/08/12 01:56 PM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Today I downloaded a large group of updates, including Open Office and some dns-related utilities. Once they were applied, > some strange network activity started on my machine. It keeps sending > and re

Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-03 Thread Paul Zimmerman
Today I downloaded a large group of updates, including Open Office and some dns-related utilities. Once they were applied, some strange network activity started on my machine. It keeps sending and receiving about 10-14k per second but I cannot find any programs that would be doing anything on th