From: Frank Knobbe (frankknobbe.us)
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 13:17:14 CDT

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On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 09:10 -0400, John Hally wrote:
> Need a quick sanity check here. I'm seeing alerts for traffic in syn
> packets, and all are destined for TCP/53. Is it possible that data is
> being piggy-backed in the syn packet on purpose and the traffic is
> benign? I don't see any other anomalies to or from these hosts, but
> wanted to make sure that I'm not overlooking something obvious.

Heya John,

what is the data in question? Anything identifiable? If not, these could
be probes from load-balancers. Perhaps you can see a pattern by src or
dst?

Cheers,
Frank

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