RE: Alerts of the ICMP relationship with smtp connection?

[Paulo <listassec () yahoo com>]

Hi Bob,

Thanks by help. The message below is my original
message. After this message, I have searching an
answer to this question.

In a test, I was seeing the maillog of the postfix
while the postfix sends the mail. Together i was
seeing the alert log of the Snort too.

The alerts on snort are generated exactly while the
postfix sends mails.

The files that I was seeing is /var/log/maillog and
/var/log/snort/alert.
 
I think that the alerts are harmless traffic, but i'd
like to understand why it's generated.

Thanks by help again.


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
I am using Snort version  Version 2.3.2 (Build
12).
I have in my snort logs the alerts:

366 - ICMP Ping *nix
384 - ICMP Ping
368 - Ping BSDtype
 
I investigated my others systems logs and in the
time
that this alert is recorded is the same that
registered smtp connection in the maillog arquive from
my postfix server.

The source IP address in snort's log is equal the
destination IP address in the maillog to smtp
connection.
 
This alerts can to be generated by my mail server when
it sends mails?
 
This alerts is a false positive?
 
Thanks by help


--- Bob Konigsberg <bobkberg () networkeval com> wrote:

> ICMP type 8 is an echo request - someone is trying
> to ping you - probably in
> an attempt to map out your network.
>
> Bob 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
> [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On
> Behalf Of Paulo
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:51 PM
> To: Frank Knobbe
> Cc: Snort.org List
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Alerts of the ICMP
> relationship with smtp
> connection?
>
> Thanks Frank,
>
> How can I to confirm this? The alerts are ICMP type
> 8.
>
>
> Thanks by help again.
>
> --- Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 13:40 -0700, Paulo wrote:
> > > I didn't solve this yet. Please, anyone can help
> > me?
> >
> > Maybe you didn't get responses because it's not a
> Snort related issue.
> > To answer your question, read up on Path Maximum
> Transmit Unit (PMTU) 
> > Discovery by googling it. Here a couple links that
> Google spit out 
> > right away.
> >
> > http://www.netheaven.com/pmtu.html
> > which also references
> > ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1191.txt
> >
> > While you are learning about PTMU, please review
> your firewall rule 
> > set and make sure you don't block ALL inbound ICMP
> packets. Please let 
> > at least type 3 and type 11 ICMP packets through.
> >
> > (Hint: The remote mail servers are sending a large
> ICMP packet in 
> > order to discover the MTU between them and you. It
> is harmless 
> > traffic.)
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Frank
>
>
>
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