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Portmapper

Comcast called me. Said I was running UDP portmapper on my external IP. Oops.

This was leftover from an experiment running NFSv4 across the net. [it sucked, used sshfs instead]

Also for those who've never experienced a reflection attack it's NASTY. Attacker sends forged source-address UDP packets so all responses go to the victim host. In the past NTP and DNS provided the vectors. Back in 2006 it was PharmaMaster and Blue Security:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11392

http://blog.level3.com/security/a-new-ddos-reflection-attack-portmapper-an-early-warning-to-the-indu...