[Techtalk] more firewall log questions
Daniel Pittman
daniel at rimspace.net
Thu Oct 8 02:34:31 UTC 2009
Nadine Leenders <nadine.leenders at ualberta.ca> writes:
G'day Nadine.
> Another question about firewall logs. Is it normal to have entries being
> continually logged? I'm getting about 4 entries each minute.
>
> Some of them I understand, and am OK with, should these still be logged?
I doubt anyone can say if they should be logged or not without seeing what the
actual packets are. However, the "background radiation" of the Internet is a
reasonably steady stream of junk packets that a strict firewall will reject,
and those figures don't sound out of the ordinary.
Daniel
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