Internet assigned numbers authority?

Not sure this is the right section of forum but here goes... Move if not plz ;-)

I am getting UDP incoming attempts on port 68 CONSTANTLY for the past couple days, seems to be increasing in frequency, from IP 10.33.96.1 which when backtraced shows no path but direct, and whois in Sygate Personal Firewall says this is the "Internet assigned numbers authority" in Marina Del Ray, California. I seem to recall some time back getting some similar activity from the same "authority" name but with a street address in Netherlands somewhere...

edited to add this - sometimes this ip attempts to ping me, at which time the "destination" shows my actual IP... Of course that's ICMP, but all the UDP attempts show destination IP as 255.255.255.255

Anyway, anyone know what this is about? Or is it more likely someone spoofing??

 

Detox

mentioned this in a reply to Mike (were you posted about the chiclet )

strange...very strange that others are not reporting it also.......perhaps their firewalls

snowman

oh..the url is correct....not spoofed

 

Hi,

Nobody involved but you

Communication between :67 et :68 are due to DHCP.
10.33.96.1 non portable IP, address of one of your NIC

Rgds,

JacK

 

Jack

just for my person information please.....a few days ago I blocked port 68 udp inbound and re-routed outbound to myself.....have not noticed an ill effects but would appreciate your opinion if possible.

thank you

snowman

 

Jack

I've located an answer.....no need for a reply...thank you just the same


snowman

 

Hi Detox! You could get set up with D-Shield so you can start finding out what all your alerts are on your Firewall Logs. Here's the link. It's free and private/secure.

http://www.dshield.org/index.html

They also have Whois, Port Lookups, etc. It does not matter which Firewall you use to be able to make reports.

IMO, based on my experience via D-Shield, UDP alerts are very low priority, not dangerous.

BTW, to find out about the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority go to this link (I'm a member of ISOC. "Internet Society of Course!" LOL.) https://www.isoc.org/internet/infrastructure/

 

Jack, may I ask what DHCP is

 

Hm, could it be related to my recent IP change? I'm on cable... this is the second time my IP has changed in 2 years or so.

 

Hope some of you will enjoy knowing some of this information.



IP address



An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network. Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination. The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For example, 1.160.10.240 could be an IP address.
Within an isolated network, you can assign IP addresses at random as long as each one is unique. However, connecting a private network to the Internet requires using registered IP addresses (called Internet addresses) to avoid duplicates.

The four numbers in an IP address are used in different ways to identify a particular network and a host on that network. Three regional Internet registries -- ARIN, RIPE NCC and APNIC -- assign Internet addresses from the following three classes.

Class A - supports 16 million hosts on each of 127 networks
Class B - supports 65,000 hosts on each of 16,000 networks
Class C - supports 254 hosts on each of 2 million networks
The number of unassigned Internet addresses is running out, so a new classless scheme called CIDR is gradually replacing the system based on classes A, B, and C and is tied to adoption of IPv6.


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