[asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Per Jessen
Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a hundred or more per second) by SIP packets. Once from 114.31.50.10, second time from 173.212.200.146. We became aware of the problem when bandwidth started suffering because asterisk got very

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Ishfaq Malik
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:41 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a hundred or more per second) by SIP packets. Once from 114.31.50.10, second time from 173.212.200.146. We became aware of the problem when

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Norbert Zawodsky
Am 28.10.2010 09:41, schrieb Per Jessen: Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a hundred or more per second) by SIP packets. Once from 114.31.50.10, second time from 173.212.200.146. We became aware of the problem when bandwidth

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Per Jessen
Norbert Zawodsky wrote: Am 28.10.2010 09:41, schrieb Per Jessen: Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a hundred or more per second) by SIP packets. Once from 114.31.50.10, second time from 173.212.200.146. We became aware of

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Per Jessen
Ishfaq Malik wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:41 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a hundred or more per second) by SIP packets. Once from 114.31.50.10, second time from 173.212.200.146. We became

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Norbert Zawodsky
Am 28.10.2010 12:14, schrieb Per Jessen: Ishfaq Malik wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:41 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a hundred or more per second) by SIP packets. Once from 114.31.50.10, second

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Norbert Zawodsky wrote: Am 28.10.2010 12:14, schrieb Per Jessen: Ishfaq Malik wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:41 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a hundred or more per second) by

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Per Jessen
Norbert Zawodsky wrote: Per, (didn't want to be unfriendly to you !) Not at all. As you say, you don't like anything to modify your firewal. My words! Someone (don't remember who when) on this list showed me a very clever trick (=iptables rule) to drop the packets if too many

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Per Jessen
Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Norbert Zawodsky wrote: Am 28.10.2010 12:14, schrieb Per Jessen: Ishfaq Malik wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:41 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our asterisk server got flooded (a

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread bakko
Fail2Ban Regards - Original Message - From: Per Jessen p...@computer.org To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:41 AM Subject: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets Over the last two weeks, we have had at least two incidents where our

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Zeeshan Zakaria
Two incidents in two weeks is not bad. I get 2-4 a day. There must be many here with even more than that. You should start considering some safety practices like disabling long distance and international calls by default, put a cap on long distance and international calls even for genuine users,

Re: [asterisk-users] being bombarded with SIP packets

2010-10-28 Thread Jeremy Kister
On 10/28/2010 3:41 AM, Per Jessen wrote: 2) if you've got some iptables rules for limiting inbound SIP by rate? exactly what i was going through; here's how i reacted (throttles both SSH and SIP Register: First, I completely blocked all non-North American Amazon EC2 networks - I won't be