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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:58:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Domas Mituzas <midom@dammit.lt>
To:        noor@comrax.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DoS attacks and FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008220757070.26964-100000@mx.nkm.lt>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008220241010.11868-100000@dns.comrax.com>

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> I have ipfw running on the server, and managed to block the IP's in
> question in time. My question is: suppose I was not near the PC at the
> time of the incident, how can I configure ipfw to automatically block
> cnnections originating from any IP and that is continuous in a suspecious
> manner? (let's say 50 concurrent connections to port 80 every second.)

Hi, it is possible to set up your ipfw firewall so it logs all setup
connections to any socket, you specify. Therefore, your program or smple
perl script may listen on that socket and make decisions by calling
external program, e.g. ipfw again.

Domas



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