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From: Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl>
To: Ric Messier <kilroy@WasHere.COM>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: syn DDoS attack solution
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:34:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <466090CA.2050806@rtij.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007101c7a45d$bc50e380$34f2aa80$@COM>

Ric Messier wrote:
> Bgs writes:
>   
>> Some more info about the attack: All IPs were real IPs otherway the tcp
>> handshake wouldn't have made it. The attacker IPs were also consistent.
>> They also new about the blocked IPs as after a new bunch of blocked IPs
>> we fared OK then they added another bunch new IPs... we played this for
>> quite some time...
>>
>> All connections were in the ESTABLISHED state.
>>
>>     
>
> Then your original description was incorrect or at least inadequate. It has
> nothing to do with SYN as originally suggested since an ESTABLISHED
> connection has blown past SYN, through SYN/ACK and by ACK. It has completed
> the TCP handshake, as you note above. A SYN attack/flood would stop after
> sending the initial SYN and leave the connection half-open to exhaust the
> half-open buffers.
>   

An connection is in the ESTABLISHED state once a packet has been seen. 
So once the SYN is seen, the state is ESTABLISHED.

M4



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-01 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-31 16:19 syn DDoS attack solution Bgs
2007-05-31 19:57 ` R. DuFresne
2007-06-01  9:45   ` Bgs
2007-05-31 20:08 ` Ric Messier
2007-06-01  1:20   ` Tony.Ho
2007-06-01  9:44   ` Bgs
2007-06-01 15:01     ` Ric Messier
2007-06-01 15:37       ` Bgs
2007-06-02 19:07         ` R. DuFresne
2007-06-04 14:22           ` Ric Messier
2007-06-04 17:24           ` Martin McKeay
2007-06-04 23:16             ` R. DuFresne
2007-06-05  8:29             ` Bgs
2007-06-05 14:16               ` Steven M Campbell
2007-06-05 15:22                 ` ..prevention, was: " Arnt Karlsen
     [not found]                   ` <466583F4.8080107@SCampbell.net>
2007-06-05 15:40                     ` Steven M Campbell
2007-06-05 18:34                       ` Arnt Karlsen
2007-06-07 18:41                     ` Martin McKeay
2007-06-08  1:40                       ` Arnt Karlsen
2007-06-12 18:10                       ` Martin McKeay
2007-06-12 22:44                         ` R. DuFresne
2007-06-13 14:24                           ` Martin McKeay
2007-06-13 17:26                             ` Arnt Karlsen
2007-06-13 17:44                               ` Martin McKeay
2007-06-14 19:43                                 ` R. DuFresne
2007-06-14 20:13                                   ` supportnew
2007-06-01 21:34       ` Martijn Lievaart [this message]
2007-06-01 21:37         ` Martijn Lievaart
2007-06-01 21:38         ` Ric Messier
2007-06-01 23:09         ` Ethy H. Brito
2007-06-19 18:22         ` R. DuFresne
2007-06-19 22:19           ` Robert Nichols
2007-06-19 23:02             ` Pascal Hambourg
2007-06-21 18:26             ` R. DuFresne

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