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Re: DNS Attacks


From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:45:22 +0000



On 18 Jan 2012, at 05:06, "toor" <lists () 1337 mx> wrote:

Hi list,

I am wondering if anyone else has seen a large amount of DNS queries
coming from various IP ranges in China. I have been trying to find a
pattern in the attacks but so far I have come up blank. I am completly
guessing these are possibly DNS amplification attacks but I am not
sure. Usually what I see is this:


At various seemingly random times over the past week I have had a DNS which is behind a firewall come under attack. The 
firewall is significant because the attacks killed the firewall as it is rather under specified (not my idea..).

It did originate from Chinese address space and consisted of DNS queries for lots of hosts. There was also a port-scan 
in the traffic and a SYN attack on a few hosts on the same small subnet as the DNS, a web server and an open SSH port.

-- 
Leigh Porter


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