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Date:      Tue, 09 May 2000 13:43:58 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Tobias Roth <roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch>
To:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   my first dos attack
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10005091328010.8518-100000@warhol>
In-Reply-To: <20000506000205.44FD837BD16@hub.freebsd.org>

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Hello

So I put up my server two weeks ago and it already happened: I got dos
attacked. The reason for this is probably that my box runs an ircd,
besides a webserver, popserver and mta. I must have been rude to someone
on the ircnetwork :)

However, this is how my logs looked:

May  9 12:03:06 mybox /kernel: icmp redirect from 203.169.158.145:
203.169.158.151 => 203.169.158.151
May  9 12:03:06 mybox iplog[89103]: ICMP: (203.169.158.151) redirect
203.169.158.145 to network 203.169.158.151

Those IP's are not from inside my ISPs domain. I received about a hundred
of those packets in a very short time, then everything stopped.
Before that, I received a few telnet connection attempts from various 
places. I don't think this is related, but I mention it anyway.

I run a two-week-old 4.0 STABLE with the following kernel options:

options         TCP_RESTRICT_RST        #restrict emission od TCP RST
options         ICMP_BANDLIM            #Rate limit bad replies

I have TCP_DROP_SYNFIN not enabled because in LINT it says that this is
not recommended for webservers.


So, should I be worried about that? Should I do anythiong else than maybe
change my behaviour on irc? Should I just drop that route for good? Should
I try to find out who is responsible for that and make a complaint? If so,
how?

Thanks for help, Tobe



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