On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Mike Rosing wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Sunder wrote:
> 
> > For the little that I get, this is what I get out of a traceroute:
> >
> > 11  acr2-loopback.Seattle.cw.net (208.172.82.62)  79.920 ms  74.381 ms
> > 88.037 ms
> > 12  bhr2-pos-0-0.Tukwilase2.cw.net (208.172.81.222)  79.107 ms  83.846 ms
> > 91.354 ms
> > 13  * csr11-ve243.Tukwilase2.cw.net (216.34.64.147)  73.553 ms  81.541 ms
> > 14  * * *
> > 15  * * *
> >
> > I've found one DNS server claiming that this is the right ip for it:
> > 216.34.94.186
> 
> Yup, looks like "whois" got it right - those are Cable & Wireless servers.
> 
> Could just be a simple flooding DoS attack.  But now how do we find all
> the floding packets and their sources?


I see slightly further in, FWIW. This looks like a legacy Exodus
customer.

[...]
12  204.255.174.186 (204.255.174.186)  120 ms  117 ms  120 ms
13  dcr1-so-4-3-0.Washington.cw.net (208.173.52.114)  130 ms  240 ms  120 ms
14  acr2-loopback.Seattle.cw.net (208.172.82.62)  200 ms  195 ms  200 ms
15  bhr2-pos-0-0.Tukwilase2.cw.net (208.172.81.222)  200 ms  195 ms  200 ms
16  csr11-ve243.Tukwilase2.cw.net (216.34.64.147)  200 ms  195 ms  200 ms
17  jerry.exodus.net (216.34.83.66)  200 ms  292 ms  200 ms
18  * * *
19  * * *
[...]

That netblock is indeed assigned to CW:

[...]
OrgName:    Cable & Wireless 
OrgID:      EXCW
Address:    3300 Regency Pkwy
City:       Cary
StateProv:  NC
PostalCode: 27511
Country:    US

NetRange:   216.32.0.0 - 216.35.255.255 
CIDR:       216.32.0.0/14 
NetName:    LEGACY-8
NetHandle:  NET-216-32-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: DNS01.EXODUS.NET
NameServer: DNS02.EXODUS.NET
NameServer: DNS03.EXODUS.NET
NameServer: DNS04.EXODUS.NET
Comment:    * Rwhois reassignment information for this block is available at:
Comment:    * rwhois.exodus.net 4321
Comment:    * For abuse please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RegDate:    1998-07-30
Updated:    2002-10-30
[...]


As for finding out ifs and wheres about a possible DOS, you'll need 
to talk to the administrators of the routers through which traffic 
is passing. Nothing of interest has passed through on NANOG yet on that
side, and they are talking about this.

-j




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