Re: DNS UDP Dos Attack?

[Gary Maltzen <maltzen () MM COM>]

I've seen similar when the host is running Napster.
What makes you think this is a DNS attempt?

> I am receiving ton of attempted UDP connections to an internal host. Connecting to this host is stopped at my 
> firewall, but my firewall is paying a stiff price. I have seen the available memory on my firewall go down my 1-2 Mbg 
> per minute while it trys to block all this traffic.
>
> Has anyone seen systems trying to reach a DNS host via UDP to port 42326?
>
> Here is a snippet of log files.
>
> UDP out 209.10.34.23:8541 in 209.11.137.71:42326 idle 0:32:24 flags -
> UDP out 209.10.34.39:29277 in 209.11.137.71:42326 idle 0:33:26 flags -
> UDP out 207.235.38.3:28931 in 209.11.137.71:42326 idle 0:32:42 flags -
> UDP out 209.10.34.39:33373 in 209.11.137.71:42326 idle 0:33:38 flags D-
> UDP out 206.190.71.2:33812 in 209.11.137.71:42326 idle 0:33:49 flags D-
> UDP out 193.141.40.42:1437 in 209.11.137.71:42326 idle 0:35:19 flags -
> UDP out 63.91.4.4:12673 in 209.11.137.71:42326 idle 0:34:49 flags -