what the hell?

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:30:49 PDT 2004


Scribbling feverishly on May 05, Sys Admin managed to emit:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> got this in the logs this morning? wtf?
> 
> Unusual System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> May  5 04:54:01 linux-sxs kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer
>  61.131.162.148:38264/80 shrinks window 1022530692:1022531292. Repaired. May 
>  5 04:54:26 linux-sxs kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer
>  61.131.162.148:38264/80 shrinks window 1022539452:1022542972. Repaired.

This was mentioned on lkml a few weeks ago. As Tyler's reply said, It
indicates a TCP protocol violation by a box on the other end. You're not
being hacked.

Kurt
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