Port 5500 - alot of traffic (that is of course denied)

Started by lar.hed, July 13, 2020, 10:24:34 AM

Previous topic - Next topic
Just since I am a bit curious: Anyone know why "people" seems to think that port 5500 (udp) with different source and/or desination IPs is funny to run all the time? Someone in the Netherlands just keeps sending this to my static IP - goes in bursts - and well it is denied, so no biggi there (I have no open ports at all, only traffix from my network out so to speak). But why? Any ideas?


This is a never ending thing, I still have a heck of alot of traffic trying to get over UDP port 5500 - yes it is still denied of course. But I am intrigued by the fact that who ever is doing this keeps doing it all the time. Currently I have a 100% blocking just because of this...

Contact the ISP of the offending address, no guarantee they will do anything but in my experience an email to abuse@whicheverisp.com sometimes gets results. I had a case where when I changed ISPs one of my static IP addresses was previously allocated to someone else, they had a device the was constantly trying to open a VPN connection. I contacted my ISP who was able to contact them and a couple of days later it stopped.
OPNsense 25.7a - Qotom Q355G4 - ISP - Squirrel 1Gbps.

Team Rebellion Member

I've sent an email to abuse Telenor (Sweden and Norway funny enough), to look into IPs:

62.127.113.21
62.127.113.39

93.91.111.2
93.91.111.6
93.91.111.10
93.91.111.14
93.91.111.26

The thing I do not get is that my static IP is not the one that I see in the "transactions", like this one:
2020-07-21T08:13:30   11,,,0,igb1,match,block,in,4,0x80,,22,13957,0,DF,17,udp,1356,93.91.111.6,233.184.48.150,5500,5500,1336

I decided to create a floating rule just to a) get a counter of how many per day, and b) remove the lines from the log....

I get about +120.000 requests from who-ever-is-doing-this...