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Automatic TCP SYN - cookie activation

I am simulating a SYN flood attack on a Raspberry Pi 1 with KALI Linux (ARM) installed. A similar message as mentioned in this post was printed after performing the attack: How to avoid syn cookies. ...
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How to detect an intranet SYN flood?

I got this problem: whenever I plug a Linux-server into the intranet, the whole network slows down and then die. Every ping/ssh connection between the intranet yields time out. I unplugged it, then ...
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IPTABLES block User-Agent

I get DDoS by the Wordpress Pingback BOTNET, now I want to block all client who contain Wordpress in there Useragents. For example: WordPress/4.0; http://vk.lokos.net; verifying pingback from 107.158....
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Firewall UDP Flood Dos/DDoS

Recently I have been suffering from what appears to be a UDP query flood attack. I am looking for a way to block the attack using a software firewall such as iptables, this should be possible, as ...
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how can i block/ban an ip after a number of rejects on a mail server?

I found several attempts to use my email server as relay. The helo command was not coming from a FQDN and therefor the request got rejected. Is there a way to ban an IP address complelty after a ...
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Stange stream of HTTP GET requests in apache logs, from amazon ec2 instances

I just had a look at my apache logs, and I see a lot of very similar requests: GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.24.0 \ NSS/3.13.5.0 zlib/1.2.5 libidn/1.18 ...
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Block SYN,ACK response with iptables

I have a virtual environment and Iam making a SYN flood attack to a Ubuntu Server's port 53 using Kali 2020. I realized that a countermeasure for this attack is to limit or block the responses to the ...
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Network flooded with seemingly empty packets

Let me preface this with the fact that I'm just a web developer at my company with little networking knowledge. Earlier today there was a department that lost all of their network connections so I ...
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Strange TCP Flood / Flood from Port 445

Good Evening. Today I noticed a strange flood on a box that I am working with, here is a dump from tcpdump: 23:21:07.580917 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 5746, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length ...
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Too much ARP 60 Packets and Network is getting very slow

I am seeing too much ARP 60 packets from one IP in wireshark. Our LAN is getting too slow, But the internet is working fine without any issues. But cant access local printers, file share etc Am ...
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SYNPROXY doesn't seem to be running

I have attempted to create iptables rules to prevent my server connections limit to be filled up with in-completed SYN packets for which no ACK packet is returned by the client (SYN flood attack). I ...
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MAC layer unicast flooding a switched network

The network in question: It is a fully switched network with no routing. There is no known RSPT problems. There are 10 small switches. Each small switch has many small industrial devices talking to ...
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iptables ... -j DROP appears to leave connections open?

So forgive me if this is a dumb question, I'm not much of a networking expert. A friends server is being flooded by a certain IP, which is pretty obvious when looking at the output of tcptrace, as ...
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running snort and IGMP v2 flooding

I am not a network guru so please bear with me. I am running snort on a PLC (running rt-linux) along with an application that needs to communicate with another instance of the same application ...
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Running tcpdump starts ssh flood

I have runtime Linux running in a PLC. My development machine is running Ubuntu 14.04. The PLC and the development machine are connected through a five port switch. I ssh to PLC from my development ...
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opnsense disable anti flood

I've just installed OPNSense; it's working ok, I can have traffic in/out, but when trying to use a sustained stream such as rtmp, it stops after a few kB. If I disable the firewall, the stream goes on,...
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Nginx flooded by IP address that's not going away

We are using nginx and seem flooded by an IP address that that's not going away even after putting it in firewall and usng tcpkill. $ netstat -tn 2>/dev/null | grep :80 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d:...
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Network timeouts with CentOS 7 server running in the same network (Syn-Flooding)

As described above, I'm having problems with my network during my CentOS 7 running. When I first encountered problems with my network I tried to permanently run ping on the main router in the same ...
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TMG only windows 2008 r2 installing. NOT WORKING windows server 2012 r2

TMG Forefront only working windows server 2008 or 2008R2 - Not working windows server 2012. How to mitigation windows server 2012R2 - Flood attacks,http attacks ? Please help how to build windows ...
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High Traffic from Content Delivery Networks

I am having trouble on our school network recently. When browsing the internet users will often get an error from the browser saying "No Internet DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" but when they refresh the ...
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Apache being hit by requests (cpu 100%)

recently we moved to a new host (DO) for one of my client after being on a shared account . I was monitoring the cpu and it was always at 100% , knowing that the site dosnt get a lot of traffic , ...
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Apache access.log flood with GET ...HTTP/1.1" requests

I have a server with Ubuntu 14.04, laravel 5.2 framework. On the last 24 hours somebody continously send flood requests from different ip adresses as shown below (log/apache2/access.log): 198.46....
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Fail2ban block on destination ip address

I have a server listening on multiple public ip addresses. When a certain situation occurs I want fail2ban to ban only on the specific ip address where the connection is attempted and not on the whole ...
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How to avoid floods like this?

Instead of describing what's happening I'll post a screenshot of Apache's server-status page: Screenshot It is a Nigerian IP. I'm having this problem for years now and I never found a viable ...
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Linux bonding (balance-tlb), KVM guests and L2 switches = unicast flooding?

I have a unicast flooding problem on my network, that started when I moved some software to virtualized guests. It seems very similar to what reported here: Switch flooding when bonding interfaces in ...
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Switch Floods Packets that should be Unicast

I work as a Network Admin in a big company. Lately we noticed an issue with our network infrastructure. Basically our network backend lies on a Catalyst as main L3 backend switch, and few Cisco Nexus ...
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How to block hping3 SYN ACK efficiently with iptables?

I'm trying to execute a TCP SYN flood on my Debian web server with nginx. Executing tcpdump "tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-syn) != 0" while flooding, I see all packets coming. iptables seem to work well ...
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Fail2ban floods and slow response time

I tried searching for this; I found many people asking but I wasn't successfully to find a working (for me) solution. I have an application that logs each connection on a custom log file. When ...
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can't block IP that is attacking one of my sites with xmlrpc.php attack

I'm at my wits end right now. I have a wordpress site that thankfull is still just a blank template. Last week I saw it was being hammered by an IP 185.130.5.180 from Lithuania and has been flagged ...
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ICMP DDoS, proper ACL?

We are having about a 3-4Gbps ICMP flood on one of our servers and I wonder.. I have a 20gbps of DDoS protection but the proetction seems ineffective against ICMP funnily (it worked well to block a ...
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Strange NetBIOS query with old computer name

I've one computer in our network which I first named PC029. Shortly after I changed its name to PC021. This was more than a year ago. Today I've found (thanks to Wireshark) that this computer is ...
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Protecting network from a broadcast storm

We have a flat office network tree built on a number of different ProCurve L2 and L3 GigE switches that spans some 300 ports. Today I found that one of the devices in the network for a short period of ...
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Why does ping flooding a domain name freezes and not a direct ip address

I am wondering why, when ping flooding a domain, the ping flood freezes after a couple of seconds then continues and this freeze, unfreeze continues until i stop the ping flood. When i do the same ...
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Finding google unusual traffic

We are a small Internet provider. In order to get Internet access we are using NAT (10-20 users per one public IP). And lately we've met with Google blocking services (captcha and full block) and we ...
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What is the best way to harden a postfix null client on an exploited php webserver?

We use postfix as a null client to send out mail from a php webserver via sendmail. We host our incoming mail servers elsewhere and use a SPF record to authorise the server to send emails from our ...
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How to prevent TCP network flood triggered by KVM VPS clients?

How to to protect nodes/ detect and block KVM VPS clients that TCP flood the network ? I use SolusVM VPS management system. Recently one abuser toke several VPSs and flood it the datacenter network. ...
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Causes of UDP Flood

This is part of a mail that I received The IP 69.89.6.235 is attacking our server at 94.23.204.191 and 87.98.168.239.80 with UDP flood. I have a newsletter scripts that I use to send newsletter to a ...
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Check if a constant file request is flooding the server

I'm new to this sort of thing so forgive me if I ask anything stupid. I am using moodle (open source LMS), it has a feature where you can upload a scorm package which requires a reliable internet ...
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Why is there flooding on L2 but not on L3?

Why is it, that on L2 (when there is no MAC Table entry for a new packet) there is MAC Flooding. But at the same time on L3 there is an ARP request (when there is no entry in the ARP table for a new ...
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ntopng: Host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is a flooder [NNN new flows in the last 3 sec]

I am exploring ntopng reports on my router and seeing, that one computer on my LAN is a flooder. ntopng says Host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is a flooder [NNN new flows in the last 3 sec] How to explore these ...
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every minute - possible SYN flooding on port 80

On our Linux server from time to time we get well known SYN flood message: possible SYN flooding on port 80 this is probably not an attack because website traffic is big. However from some time ...
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GET /wpad.dat entries flooding my access_log

I have a small LAN of some 30 users in it with proxy auto configuration enabled and working. Two of them are requesting wpad.dat file too rapidly at a pace of 30 times per second. 10.1.14.246 - - [...
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Network flooded with LLC packet

Recently my network has been slow. From Tcpdump i found lot of frame with protocol LLC. A complete packet capture can been here tcpdump result Any hints on interpreting these packet?
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Amazon EC2 bandwidth charges in case of unwanted incoming traffic(ddos/flood)?

What happens if my EC2 instance gets ddosed/flooded, which could potentially go up to tens of gigabytes an hour(and even more) of undesired incoming traffic, will i be charged for this traffic? My ...
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How to detect malicious script in my CentOS server? [duplicate]

I am warned from my VPS provider that my server sends a lot of SSH SYN Attack to other servers, but I have no idea how to deal with it. Here's the detail my provider sent me: Where can I find the ...
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Protection against scrapping with nginx

This morning we had a crawler going nuts on our server hitting our site almost 100 times per second. We'd like to add a protection for this. I guess I'' have to use HttpLimitReqModule but I don't ...
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apache being flooded?

I have a linux apache server which was running fine until a few days ago. What happened is from the access log there are lines like this, and the log file is growing by many lines every second. ...
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How to protect from spoofed SYN flood on a Linux machine? [duplicate]

I have a server (2 x E2620, 32 GB RAM, Debian 6 Linux us-fw 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 25 00:26:11 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux, 10G Intel Ethernet Card). It has an Nginx proxy server inside. Idea is ...
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sudo passwd on Ubuntu 11.10 strange behavior. Have I been rooted?

I'm in a really strange situation. A few hours ago Rackspace issued a ticket saying there's a outbound flood originating from my server. Thinking the server might have been rooted with a rootkit I ...
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iptables rules for botnet (UDP flood) protection

I'm currently experiencing a massive UDP attack on my server. I host a couple of gameservers, mainly Tf2, CS:GO, CS 1.6 and CS:Source, and my 1.6 server is being flooded. I tried different rules in ...