RE: Alerts

["Brian Jameson" <tech () jameson co uk>]

David wrote

> I have Snort running on a Fedora Core 3 server.  I see alot of ICMP
> Destination Unreachable Communication with Destination Host is
> Administratively Prohibited    alerts.  The problem is it appears that
> my server is the source IP.  Is my server running rouge pings?  Or is
> it as I suspect that someone has scanned or pingged(sp) my server but
> is unable to respond?  Thanks in advance.
>
> David Young

I came across the same thing when I upgraded to Fedora Core 3. The ICMP
Destination Unreachables for me were down to the Firewall on the Fedora
Core 3 machines. In /etc/sysconfig/iptables are the rules fed to iptables
and in Core 3 the final line is a:-
'-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited' if the
firewall is activated. I changed this to a DROP and removed the
--reject-with icmp-host-prohibited and the problem went away.

regards,
Brian



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