floods through our proxy

From: Jon Zobrist (jzobristat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:47:45 PDT

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    We have an old software proxy that clients surfed through.
    It's discontinued and normally we have 50 clients or less still trying
    to use it. In the last hour it's climbed to over 3000 so I did some
    investigating.
    It seems the same clients over and over are making massive amounts of
    http queries. Since we don't proxy, we just forward to a page that says
    product discontinued, and since that page is on a thttpd server, it
    hasn't affected us.
    
    However, it seems to be a DoS...I've got 8 IPs that were sending a
    combined 40 requests/second listed in my firewall now.
    
    Anyone else noticing any bursts in http traffic or known attacks?
    -- 
    Jon Zobrist 
    CISSP
    <jzobristat_private>
    
    
    



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