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Sharma_Harsh
New Member
May 30, 2018
Question

What does srccountry="Reserved" mean?

  • May 30, 2018
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Firewall Logs from FG-800c 
Here is a sample from the log: almost 20% logs have either srccountry='Reserved' or dstcountry='Reserved'
'2018-03-31T03:49:00.493663+05:30 * date=2018-03-31 time=03:49:00 devname=FG800C3G11614133 devid=FG800C3913802529 logid=0000000013 type=traffic subtype=forward level=notice vd=root srcip=10.208.23.164 srcname=RedmiNote4-Redmi srcport=63956 srcintf="port3" dstip=96.45.33.73 dstport=8888 dstintf="wan1" sessionid=2579982575 status=deny policyid=0 dstcountry="United States" srccountry="Reserved" trandisp=noop service=8888/udp proto=17 duration=0 sentbyte=0 rcvdbyte=0 devtype="Windows PC" osname="Windows" osversion="7" unauthuser=* unauthusersource="imap" mastersrcmac=00:15:17:76:54:29 srcmac=00:15:17:76:54:29 crscore=2432696350 craction=131072'

1 reply

Lukino
Explorer
May 30, 2018

I think it means that the source address is a private IP

Kenundrum
New Member
May 30, 2018

Yes- it is referring to RFC1918 and other private use IP addresses not assigned to the public internet.

emnoc
New Member
May 30, 2018

yes reserved and never to be use outside of that here's some more geoip  tips

 

http://socpuppet.blogspot.com/2017/08/fortios-geoip-tips.html