Re: Possible ICMP DOS spoofed to Nameservers?

From: Gary Losito (garyat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 05:33:37 PST

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    While I haven't been seeing ICMP messages, I have been seeing a large number of ssh attempts coming from a growing list of nameservers.  The attempts are happening at a rate of approximately 3-5 per minute.  I'd be glad to share the list if anyone is interested.
    
    Gary
    
    
    On 30 Dec 2001 19:52 EST you wrote:
    
    > I've been seeing ICMP Type 3 Code 13 messages coming from 2 sites and
    > destine to our name servers. While doing a tcpdump I see no outbound
    > packets with a destination directed toward the sites sending the ICMP
    > unreachable messages. So I'm assuming that someone is spoofing the
    > addresses of our name servers to ping flood the 2 sites. However we are
    > only receiving the unreachable messages at a rate of approximately 5 to
    > 10 per minute. What I find interesting is that only our name server
    > addresses are being spoofed and those name servers are located on 2
    > entirely different class 'C' address space and at entirely different
    > physical locations (same domain though). The packet traces show that the
    > addresses sending the unreachable messages are most likely firewalls or
    > border routers denying ICMP because the unreachable hosts are not the
    > ones sending the unreachable messages. I started seeing messages from
    > one site (Microsoft) at 2001/12/23-00:04:22 PST and the other site
    > (Keesler Air Force Base) at 2001/12/28-07:17:11 PST and they are still
    > going as I write this.
    > 
    >  
    > 
    > Is anyone else seeing anything like this?
    > 
    >  
    > 
    > Is there a DDOS currently going on that happens to cycle through a list
    > of name servers as spoofed sources?
    > 
    >  
    > 
    > Thanks,
    > 
    > Rich
    > 
    > 
    > 
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