full-disclosure - Really ODD 12 byte UDP attempts

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Date: Mon Aug 29 04:44:33 2005
From: michael.hale at gmail.com (Michael Hale)
Subject: Really ODD 12 byte UDP attempts

I agree - Unix style traceroute probably responsible. See:

http://www.tech-faq.com/unix-windows-traceroute.shtml 

On 8/28/05, Blue Boar <BlueBoar@...evco.com> wrote:
> James Lay wrote:
> > Aug 28 06:57:01 kernel: New,invalid SRC=64.94.45.26 DST=24.116.255.102
> > LEN=32 PROTO=UDP SPT=11050 DPT=33440 LEN=12
> 
> Most likely someone is just tracerouting to your IP.  Grab the actual
> packets, and check the TTLs to be sure.
> 
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