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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Having recently restarted my local opensim server I find that the access port is attracting a huge volume of what seem to be port probes. On the console it looks like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>15:18:27 - [LLUDPSERVER]: Malformed data, cannot parse 28 byte packet from 109.170.204.74:10646:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>15:18:27 - 23 5A 02 E3 2A F7 56 8B 79 D5 94 B4 26 78 C8 E2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2C 79 90 65 62 4D 2E 4E 9D CC 6B 89<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>15:20:34 - [LLUDPSERVER]: Malformed data, cannot parse 28 byte packet from 86.164.18.198:57353:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>15:20:34 - 24 F0 02 A6 11 7F 18 8B 79 D5 94 B6 28 22 ED 60<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BE 20 5A 4E 7F 9F 26 80 2F B6 C5 82<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>15:30:18 - [LLUDPSERVER]: Malformed data, cannot parse 28 byte packet from 174.118.94.143:3320:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>15:30:18 - BE B9 02 9B 16 04 46 A4 36 2E 93 97 3E 5C C3 DA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>02 20 D2 DA 5F A1 07 69 7F B4 B6 05<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There are many hundreds of them throughout the day – often from the same source, often from a variety of souces. Leaving a port sniffer running (Wireshark) confirms that this is real. If I search on some of the IP addresses, some of them show up in Google as previous spambot or phishing sources.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I run ‘ShieldsUp’ it shows that the opensim port DOES respond if poked remotely.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone seen this? Is it a problem?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I would have thought that it would be better for the Opensim access port to be stealthy unless it receives a valid UDP packet?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards, Kevin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>