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Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS)
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:49:40 +0000
On Jul 25, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
The packet is a non-initial fragment if and only if, the fragmentation offset is not set to zero. Port number's not a field you look at for that.
I understand all that, thanks. NetFlow reports source/dest port 0 for non-initial fragments. That, coupled with the description of the attack, makes it a near-certainty that the observed attack was a DNS reflection/amplification attack. Furthermore, most routers can't perform the type of filtering necessary to check deeply into the packet header in order to determine if a given packet is a well-formed non-initial fragment or not. And finally, many router implementations interpret source/dest port 0 as - yes, you guessed it - non-initial fragments. Hence, it's not a good idea to filter on source/dest port 0. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton
Current thread:
- DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Frank Bulk (Jul 24)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Roland Dobbins (Jul 24)
- RE: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Frank Bulk (Jul 24)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Jimmy Hess (Jul 24)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) sthaug (Jul 24)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Dobbins, Roland (Jul 24)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Dobbins, Roland (Jul 24)
- RE: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Frank Bulk (Jul 25)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Dobbins, Roland (Jul 25)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Roland Dobbins (Jul 24)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) John Kristoff (Jul 25)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Joel Maslak (Jul 25)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Dobbins, Roland (Jul 25)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Mark Andrews (Jul 25)
- Re: DDoS using port 0 and 53 (DNS) Dobbins, Roland (Jul 25)