Did you try calling your ISP and asking if they have a DDoS
mitigation/protection system or service?

-n

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Justin Ellison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Well, don't I feel "special" - we're being hit with the first DDoS in
> company history.  While I'm no stranger to what they're about, I've never
> actually experienced one before.  I'm aware of how most of them have an IRC
> command channel, and that without reverse-hacking and potentially breaking
> some laws I won't be able to determine the source.
> Initially, to get the site back up, I ended up blocking APNIC, RIPE, etc
> (anything not ARIN), which worked, but we do some international sales, so
> that's not a long term solution.
> For phase 2, I hacked a quick script that examines our webservers' last 20K
> Apache log entries, and looked for the behavior of hitting the home page >
> 100 times without hitting any other pages in those 20K entries.  I then
> wrote an expect script that takes those IP's and adds them to the shun list
> on our ASA's.
> This is working for now, and our shun list is at 5K IP's and growing.
>  However, my script has some inherent latency in it, and is not what I'd
> call "production material".  It was hacked together at 3am and I'm shocked
> it even runs at all.
> So, with that in mind, how do people who see these type of things frequently
> deal with them?  Another company we deal with has recommended we get in
> touch with RioRey and Radware -- I've never dealt with either of them.  In
> fact, I hadn't even heard of RioRey until today.
> Also, are there any "known zombie" blacklists out there that are fairly
> reputable?
> Sorry if I'm rambling, but I'm running on caffeine and cold medications at
> this point.  I'd love any tips/pointers anyone of you could share.
> Justin
>
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