I just installed Firestarter on a 7.04 system at home and have started to see this problem.
This morning, several "active connections", originating on my home system and going to weird high-numbered ports on a target system I had never heard of before, were being reported by Firestarter. "netstat -a" didn't show these connections. Not surprisingly, my first horrified thought was that perhaps a hacker had broken into my system and installed a rootkit to prevent "netstat" from revealing his evil deed, but that Firestarter was showing him! Anyway . . . . My home system is behind a firewall, and when I scanned the firewall's logs for the target IP address and port numbers, I found several INBOUND connections FROM the mysterious host in question, with the SOURCE ports (on the remote host) being the same weird high-numbered ports reported by Firestarter, and with the DESTINATION port (on my end) in each case being 25 (the SMTP port -- my home system functions as a backup SMTP server). So, it appears that Firestarter somehow got info about an inbound SMTP connection, but then recorded it for display as if it were an active outbound connection. And as others have reported, these bogus "active connection" entries will not go away unless I reboot. Is it possible that this is in fact a networking bug in 7.04, and that the real culprit is not Firestarter, but some kernel table that Firestarter is accessing (but which "netstat -a" isn't looking at)? Or, perhaps, that Firestarter is looking at the same kernel table that "netstat" uses, but is misinterpreting something it sees in that table? That would seem to explain why the bogus "active connection" entries don't go away when the Firestarter GUI is restarted, but only if the computer itself is restarted. -- Closed connections shown in "Active connections" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112334 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
