Gratuitous syn/ack

Fri Nov 12 01:03:41 UTC 2010

I am betting backscatter.  

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On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Pete Carah <pete at altadena.net> wrote:

> I'm seeing a significant number (about 1/minute 24 hr/day) of syn/ack
> packets coming from port 80 of random addresses to random ports on my
> nameserver and a few other systems.  This isn't enough traffic to be
> really annoying, but is curious.
> 
> I wonder if the simple explanation (backscatter from syn floods with
> spoofed source addresses) is more likely, or if there are some probing
> techniques in "normal" use that use these packets (one could accomplish
> a traceroute using port 80 packets in either direction...)
> 
> -- Pete
> 
> 