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Re: FWTKSYSERR

From: Rick Murphy <rmurphy () mitretek org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:14:17 -0400

At 07:54 AM 4/5/00 -0500, Brown, Frederick wrote:

Mar 00 08:11:19 5D:tango-gw http-gw[21392]: fwtksyserr: cannot get peer name
Mar 00 08:11:21 5D:tango-gw http-gw[24119]: fwtksyserr: getsockaddr failed:
Invalid argument

This almost always indicates a port scan - someone started the TCP openhandshake and disconnected before it completed. Since you're seeing otherports (the Real Audio one as well) that makes it almost certain that you'rebeing either port scanned or probed.

        -Rick

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