Re: Severe DOS under 2.2.1 (fwd)
Dammit, sense of duty wins out over laziness. *sigh*
http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi
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Nathan Norman
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:36:41 -0600 (EST)
From: Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>
To: matthew@debian.org
Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Severe DOS under 2.2.1
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
: Dear all,
:
: Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting happening of my machine
: running a massive DOS in my abscence. I have an NE2000 card, and compiled
: a 2.2.1 kernel at 00.05 on Thursday morning, then went to bed. I then got
: up at about 7am, and did some ssh. I went out at 8. About 11pm, my machine
: started spewing random stuff out at full wack (10Mbits per sec), causing
: half the college network and a router to die. Since then, it has behaved
: fine (plugged in behind another box incase it repeats), and there is
: nothing in the kernel config or any logs to suggest anything
: extraordinary.
:
: DoeS aNy Body have any ideas what might have caused this, or any more
: diagnostics I could run?
Sounds like a smurf attack. I'll track down the URL and send it to you
if you wish - I'm at home, tired, and lazy :)
(smurf is "solved" with routers, generally, so you should run the info
at the URL by your admins and see if they've made the changes).
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Nathan Norman
MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD
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