[CentOS] Fixing to bite the dust?

[nate]

sam wrote:
> I've been getting LOTS of messages like the below in the daily log, and
> from all indications, it appears to all be related to the cpu;
> the machine is just over a year old, and was the old vortex.wa4phy;net
> server from the downtown co-lo site.  Aside from huge log files, and
> lots of other fluff, numerous problems of other nature have started
> cropping up.  Anyone have any suggestions as to what to do besides make
> a boat anchor out of it?  It's all greek to me, so I'm totally at the
> mercy of those folks who understand the bits and bites (lit) that have
> run amok in things.  Any suggestions as a possible fault other than the
> cpu just becoming more toasty brown? :)

Those messages don't look particularly bad, is the system
crashing or something?

It seems like some sort of packet logging, perhaps iptables log
rules or something?

I get messages like this in my logs all the time, no harm done:
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=125.89.73.173
DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=104 ID=256 PROTO=TCP
SPT=6000 DPT=3306 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=74.160.133.83
DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=14491 DF PROTO=TCP
SPT=4664 DPT=139 WINDOW=64512 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=74.160.133.83
DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=15210 DF PROTO=TCP
SPT=4664 DPT=139 WINDOW=64512 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=95.67.143.212
DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=109 ID=6209 DF PROTO=TCP
SPT=4604 DPT=139 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=95.67.143.212
DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=109 ID=6884 DF PROTO=TCP
SPT=4604 DPT=139 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00
SRC=207.183.171.254 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=51
ID=1415 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=14669 DPT=139 WINDOW=60352 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00
SRC=207.183.171.254 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=51
ID=2157 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=14669 DPT=139 WINDOW=60352 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

nate