Closed port RST: Any way to find out what port(s)?

Larry Rosenman ler at lerctr.org
Mon May 16 18:44:41 UTC 2016


On 2016-05-16 12:36, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:31:02PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> I'm seeing tons of:
>> Limiting closed port RST response from 201 to 200 packets/sec
>> in my log.  Is there any way to see what port(s) are being pounded?
> 
> sysctl net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1
> 
> I expect you would get a ton of spam from that, so my suggestion would
> be tcpdump.  e.g.
> 
> tcpdump -i <interface> -n 'tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-rst) != 0'
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary
Thanks, Gary.  Turns out it's a "known issue" with multimedia/plex*, and 
occasionally it will
stop answering on 33400.

the sysctl helped there.


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