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Recent DDoS Attacks
As you may or may not be aware, the network -- my network -- serving the Aural Moon web site has been unwittingly solicited as a participant in a more likely than not BotNet DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) amplification attack. Be it known, it is not my network, nor is it the Aural Moon web site, that is the target of these attacks. My network's DNSs (Domain Name Servers) are being used -- or there's been an attempt to use them -- to facilitate a flood of requests to the intended targets. This is done by faking the source address in the IP packet such that when the unwitting DNS responds, it sends the response to the target victim. By using unwitting DNS participants around the 'net, they can amplify the attack's effect and essentially drown the target victim with too much traffic; hence, a denial of service.
I have taken steps to mitigate this but there's really no defense of this action because there's no way to trace the source of these feigned DNS requests. I have been able to identify a number of the targets and I have enabled an input filter on my network's routers to simply deny these request into/onto my network and, subsequently, to the DNSs. This is an ongoing battle. I have a packet sniffer running on the connection between the ISP's interface and the routing interface of the router. I've implemented some filter rules which quickly identify these feigned DNS requests. When I have the source IP address(es), I add them to an ACL (Access Control List) on the router to simply drop them. Note, however, that this doesn't STOP these attacks, it merely mitigates their effectiveness by keeping them from passing onto my network. These attacks are still consuming a vast chunk of my bandwidth. Code:
I totaled the matches counts for the 'deny' clauses and that number is 2,936,515. The total count of packets that were permitted onto the network is 2,646,852. Some quick math shows that that is about 52% of the traffic currently hitting my router's interface. So, if things seems slow, you know know why. How to stop this? Good question. The Bots in the BotNet are, more likely than not, WEENDOZE boxes. STOP USING WEENDOZE. Also, the ISPs of the world are culpable too. A responsible ISP would/should not route ANY packets that do not maintain source IP addresses within their network. Because I've never had to contend with this before, I'm learning some more Cisco IOS. IOS has "policing" policies that can throttle certain protocols, networks, etc. As soon as I can get my head wrapped around how to properly implement them, I will put in a throttle for DNS requests that should mitigate these attacks without having to constantly monitor and modify the Cisco's ACLs.
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