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Comment on os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports by carlo

carlo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:59:22 +0000

Pete, you may also try to reinstall MacPorts from scratch.

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/2373

Pre-compiled binaries that get installed in /usr/local can be found here:

http://rudix.org

Comment on snow leopard firewall stealth connection attempts – SHIELDS UP! by carlo

carlo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:51:15 +0000

For an attempt to answer these kind of issues see:

“Am I being hacked?? HAVE I been hacked?”,

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1481932

For an example ipfw ruleset you may want to check out and see if it helps try:

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1267

Comment on os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports by Pete

Pete — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:46:35 +0000

Thanks for the info. MacPorts is a tedious bloody thing, and after looking at all the fixes and packages that are required, I realised why I got rid of it in the first place off my machine: buggy, tired old versions of software, and over the top dependency/version checking. I’m back to DIY compilation in /usr/local with the original software source (which usually includes Mac-ready compile options)!
Too any newbs out there: be prepared for a lot of frustration with MacPorts – it just doesn’t work very well.

Comment on os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports by andualem

andualem — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:56:13 +0000

thank you very much for ur professional help…

Comment on os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports by Matt Roberts

Matt Roberts — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:03:41 +0000

Cheers dude, you saved me from a frustrated hour with this info

Comment on os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports by Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:54:51 +0000

Wow! Great help. I love Snow Leopard, but sometimes it’s a little bewildering. Vielen Dank!

Comment on os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports by Arnaud

Arnaud — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:41:51 +0000

Thanks for this great article, Very helpful too;-)

Comment on snow leopard firewall stealth connection attempts – SHIELDS UP! by Claudio

Claudio — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:20:57 +0000

Ok, I can report this is happening to me too: running OS X 10.6 in a MacBook Pro (unibody). The hardware actually doesn’t matter for this.

I have noticed, however that seeing the logs at /var/log/appfirewall.log, I have incoming requests by UDP from my DNS servers, to me… by port 53 (DNS requests). I have anothers requests by TCP from not-known IPs ports 80 and 443 (HTTP, HTTPS). But you are right….. at first look, this seems like we are being hacked, but I don’t think so….. Not sure what have changed in Snow Leopard’s ipfw.

Comment on snow leopard firewall stealth connection attempts – SHIELDS UP! by miles

miles — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:23:27 +0000

Hi,

I hate to say this but MEE TOO. Only in my case those are random hits every once in a while. Im running 10.6.1 on a NEW MBP (as of this afternoon, fresh outta the box as it were).

If you run across anything please post it here.

Thanks.

Miles.

Comment on os x 10.6 (snow leopard) and macports by Alla

Alla — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:06:28 +0000

Thanks… A great article! Had same trouble. Very helpful!