two strange issues...

From: SSingleton (SSingleton_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:59:02 -0800

I have two unrelated questions regarding my ISA 2004 installation. Here's
our setup:

internal network is 192.168.x.x, Default setup rules for the Edge Firewall
template allowing internal networks to access the net unrestricted, and two
rules to publish web servers on the internal network.

Question #1:

Twice over the last few days I've gotten an alert that one of the webservers
has 'exceeded it's connection limit' and was disconnected. The alert
mentioned the webservers internal IP address and told me to check the log.
There were no other entries listed in the system or application log related
to this subject.

Where in the heck do I set the connection limit for an internal IP. I don't
think this is specifically caused by external connections coming through the
publish rule, but maybe by some utilities that ocassionaly run on the web
server to download data files, resolve IPs, etc. I'm not sure how to debug
this problem.

Question #2

When I look at the "sessions" I see a "secureNAT" session from an external
IP Address. When I do a log query to look for activity from this IP Address
I see that it's attempted a few SMTP connections to my SMTP publish. The
SMTP server I use is a spam filter SMTP relay called ASSP. Anyway I checked
it's logs and see that yes, it was logged as opening connections, but never
transmitted any data. Unfortunately what I see is that those attempts
happened over an hour prior to when I view this session in the session list.

A) why is that session still listed in the session list when it's not
currently connected to my SMTP server, and hasn't been for over an hour.

B) why is it listed as a "SecureNAT" client in the session list when it's
really an inbound SMPT packet? When I do a log query all the log entries
show the proper rule which publishes the SMTP server. So Why the
discrepencies in the Session list?

-- 
-Scott Singleton
Alexandria, VA


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