**ICMP TimeStamp request** Help!!!

[AledJ]

Today I saw this in my router firewall log, any idea what it is? The first address I do not recognise, and the second (the 00.00.00.000) is my router wan ip.

**ICMP TimeStamp request** 93.46.127.26->> 00.00.00.000, Type:13, Code:0 (from WAN Inbound)

Is someone trying to see the time on my router, or trying to attack it?

[Splash]

It could well be a probe on your router, as part of a portscan looking for a way in, but in all honesty if you're connected to the internet this is pretty much par for the course and I certainly wouldn't be losing any sleep on it. So long as you're not doing anything silly like running your machine in a DMZ with no firewall, obviously.

[AledJ]

It could well be a probe on your router, as part of a portscan looking for a way in, but in all honesty if you're connected to the internet this is pretty much par for the course and I certainly wouldn't be losing any sleep on it. So long as you're not doing anything silly like running your machine in a DMZ with no firewall, obviously.

No don't use the DMZ function. Thanks for the info

[burble]

Ignore it, it's someone on 93.46.127.26 (Italy) looking for an NTP server by the looks of it.

You can ignore nearly everything that your router logs - home routers are way, way, way too sensitive and seem to decide that every bit of traffic hitting the WAN interface is a DDOS attack.

[billythewiz]

ICMP TimeStamp request is one way that computers on a network can keep their clocks in sync.

It's possible that your Italian friend was probing for vulnerabilities, but IMO it's more likely that there network is badly configured and these are leaking out.

I also suspect that your router threw the request away rather than forwarding it or responding to it.

I wouldn't worry.