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From: James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net>
To: Kev <savage-garden@hanikamail.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, linux-config@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Server under DDOS attack HELP
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:20:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <411E0385.7010309@lovedthanlost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040814180808.DEE1.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com>

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Kev wrote:

>hi,
>
>for the 5th time today my server is under a DDOS attack :( how can i
>stop this ??? what i block all ICMP communication ?????
>
>plz help.....
>
>  
>
Kev

What sort of attack is this?  What are you seeing in your firewall logs?

To restrict all incoming new and established state ICMP traffic you can 
do something like:

iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j DROP

Regards

James

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-14 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-14 12:10 Server under DDOS attack HELP Kev
2004-08-14 12:20 ` James Turnbull [this message]
2004-08-14 12:30   ` Re[2]: " Kev
2004-08-14 12:34     ` James Turnbull
2004-08-14 12:45       ` Re[2]: " Kev

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