[CentOS] Incoming rsync connection attempts

Thu Oct 15 09:06:38 UTC 2015
Александр Кириллов <nevis2us at infoline.su>

Jeff Boyce писал 2015-10-14 21:13:
> Greetings -
> 
> In my logwatch report this morning I noticed reference to an attempt
> to connect to rsync from an external IP address.  It doesn't appear
> that the connection was successful based on correlating information
> between /var/log/secure and /var/log/messages.  But I am looking for
> some suggestions for implementing more preventative measures, if
> necessary.  The log information from the last few attempts are shown
> below.
> 
> /var/log/secure
> Oct 13 00:14:08 Bison xinetd[2232]: START: rsync pid=15306 
> from=180.97.106.36
> Oct 13 01:55:51 Bison xinetd[2232]: START: rsync pid=15343 
> from=85.25.43.94
> Oct 13 23:25:35 Bison xinetd[2232]: START: rsync pid=16548 
> from=114.119.37.86
> 
> /var/log/messages
> Oct 13 00:14:08 Bison rsyncd[15306]: rsync: unable to open
> configuration file "/etc/rsyncd.conf": No such file or directory (2)
> Oct 13 00:14:08 Bison rsyncd[15306]: rsync error: syntax or usage
> error (code 1) at clientserver.c(923) [receiver=3.0.5]
> Oct 13 01:55:51 Bison rsyncd[15343]: rsync: unable to open
> configuration file "/etc/rsyncd.conf": No such file or directory (2)
> Oct 13 01:55:51 Bison rsyncd[15343]: rsync error: syntax or usage
> error (code 1) at clientserver.c(923) [receiver=3.0.5]
> Oct 13 23:25:35 Bison rsyncd[16548]: rsync: unable to open
> configuration file "/etc/rsyncd.conf": No such file or directory (2)
> Oct 13 23:25:35 Bison rsyncd[16548]: rsync error: syntax or usage
> error (code 1) at clientserver.c(923) [receiver=3.0.5]
> 
> There is no /etc/rsyncd.conf file present on the system, so I can see
> why the connection wasn't successful.  Our backups get pushed to this
> one from other servers using rsync.

You can block access to tcp/udp port 873 from external addresses.
You probably don't need rsync server either and can just disable it.