By dusty225
I’m getting a constant flow (about 1 packet per second) of these ICMP network packets (See below). Can anyone enlighten me as to what is happening? My droplet is 104.236.22.84 and the address (52.19.78.160) changes in almost every packet. Thanks in advance.
#tcpdump -nv icmp
14:31:28.860085 IP (tos 0xc0, ttl 64, id 4507, offset 0, flags [none], proto ICMP (1), length 80) 104.236.22.84 > 52.19.78.160: ICMP host 104.236.22.84 unreachable - admin prohibited, length 60 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 113, id 31537, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 52) 52.19.78.160.56610 > 104.236.22.84.ssh: Flags [S], cksum 0xb79e (correct), seq 1121351023, win 8192, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
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