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Outbound Traffic Source Port 80

Bill CARTER
Level 5
Level 5

I have a Web server in my DMZ. Periodically the server sends traffic with source tcp/80 and a random destination tcp port. Is this normal?

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Jouni Forss
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

Hi,

Wouldnt this happen in any situation where the DMZ server is hosting Web/HTTP services to the outside world and someone was connecting to it and loading web page contents?

Do you have any logs capture so share with us of the situation?

- Jouni

Benjamin Story
Level 5
Level 5

This sounds like normal behavior as long as there is a packet before the outbound packet from the outside host making a request to your web server on tcp/80.  The random high port is the port the requester will listen on for the reply.  A packet capture using the ASA packet capture wizard will let you see for sure.

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