How stop DoS and SYN attack..

[Alberto Ferrer]

Solved at moment, some bad boy its doing a syn flood to my webserver
with 38.000 ips, i want die :) , for now, iptables and mod_evasive its
winning.

2006/6/5, Mogens Valentin <mogensv at vip.cybercity.dk>:
> Alberto Ferrer wrote:
> > i got a lot of:
> >
> > Jun  5 00:19:29 lnx1 kernel: [4322108.323000] fp=bad_packets:1 a=DROP
> > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:08:54:2f:8a:ac:00:0b:46:e2:04:00:08:00
> > SRC=201.231.52.141 DST=200.68.95.25 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=248
> > ID=0 PROTO=TCP SPT=53176 DPT=80 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
> >
> > Jun  5 00:19:34 lnx1 kernel: [4322112.926000] fp=INPUT:99 a=DROP
> > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:08:54:2f:8a:ac:00:0b:46:e2:04:00:08:00
> > SRC=200.68.126.88 DST=200.68.95.27 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119
> > ID=44694 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1196 DPT=445 WINDOW=8760 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
> >
> > Jun  5 00:19:35 lnx1 kernel: [4322113.710000] fp=INPUT:99 a=DROP
> > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:08:54:2f:8a:ac:00:0b:46:e2:04:00:08:00
> > SRC=200.68.126.88 DST=200.68.95.28 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119
> > ID=44762 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1134 DPT=445 WINDOW=8760 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
> >
> > Jun  5 00:19:36 lnx1 kernel: [4322114.558000] fp=INPUT:99 a=DROP
> > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:08:54:2f:8a:ac:00:0b:46:e2:04:00:08:00
> > SRC=200.68.126.88 DST=200.68.95.27 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=119
> > ID=44873 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1196 DPT=445 WINDOW=8760 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
> >
> > Jun  5 00:19:39 lnx1 kernel: [4322117.587000] fp=bad_packets:1 a=DROP
> > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:08:54:2f:8a:ac:00:0b:46:e2:04:00:08:00
> > SRC=201.254.155.13 DST=200.68.95.25 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=244
> > ID=0 PROTO=TCP SPT=28837 DPT=80 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0
> >
> > My website its working a bit slow now ^^ and my ISP says: "you can
> > block that by your self" .
>
> And rightfully so; this is your own problem. No pun intended :)
>
> Looking at your presended dumps, you see DPT=445:
>    grep 445 /etc/services
>    microsoft-ds    445/tcp
>    microsoft-ds    445/udp
>
> Those are requests to MS directory services, coming in on your internet
> interface (so it looks), and correctly being blocked.
> Your only problem may be the number of those, which you may do something
> about using iptables limit targets.
>
> The DTP=80 are requests to either your webserver (do you have one
> running?), or to a assumed running webserver.
> You may wanna have a look at which services are running behind, or at,
> the firewall, whether or not those are secured by themselves.
>
> > ¿What distro is most prepared for this?
>
> The one you know the best ;) No, seriously, I don't know. Thay can all
> be used. It's not a that much a matter of which distro, but go through
> the kernel setup, read in /usr/src/linux/Documentation about what you
> can do with in /proc or with sysctl, and read about iptables.
> For a distro, I'd suggest Slackware, partly because I know ot well,
> partly because it doesn't have all those wrapper mechanisms other
> distros have, so it's simple to find out how things works, plus per
> default it's setup quite safe.
> However, no distros I know of, can do anything about your specific kind
> of traffic. It's up to you to define measures against such.
>
> > 2006/6/3, Mogens Valentin <mogensv at vip.cybercity.dk>:
> >
> >> Alberto Ferrer wrote:
> >> > ¿any know a way to stop via Linux with iptables or related a SYN
> >> attack ?
> >> > ¿where i can read something related to this?
> >>
> >>    # Enable syn-cookies (prevent syn-flood attacks):
> >>      echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
> >>
> >>    # Reduce number of possible SYN Floods:
> >>      echo "1024" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog
> >>
> >> Helps somewhat. Can also be set via sysctl.
> >> You may wan't to look into iptables docs for the 'limit' module:
> >>
> >>    -m limit --limit X/sec
>
> Again, take a look a the limits target in iptables.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Mogens Valentin
>
>


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