understanding kernel log output

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Author: LucasVogellvogel@exponent.com
Date:  
Subject: understanding kernel log output
Is there any documentation for understanding the output into the services
file in the /var/log directory? I seem to be getting a lot of different
requests for port 0 from all kinds of different ip addresses for some
reason; in the last 5 minutes I have had over 2 dozen ip addresses be
DENY'ed. I get output like this:
Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=24.69.13.250:8 24.1.221.97:0 L=28 S=0x00
I=55837 F=0x0000 T=104 (#76)

All I seem to understand from this line is someone was denied connecting to
my port 0 from someone's port #8. At first I thought it was a Gnapster
thing(I keep it running at all times) but I actually don't get hit very much
on that...

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Lucas Vogel, Software Developer
Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.

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