really nasty attacks

2012-09-27 Thread Miguel Mata
Guys, on recent days I've seen an UDP attack a couple of times. The attack is fairly simple, a full load of UDP packets filled with X. The attacks comes from various sites from the other side of the pond (46.165.197.xx, 213.152.180.yy). Has anyone seen this kind of attack? Basically, the

Re: really nasty attacks

2012-09-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 27, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Miguel Mata wrote: Guys, on recent days I've seen an UDP attack a couple of times. The attack is fairly simple, a full load of UDP packets filled with X. The attacks comes from various sites from the other side of the pond (46.165.197.xx,

Re: really nasty attacks

2012-09-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:55:58AM -0600, Miguel Mata mm...@intercom.com.sv wrote a message of 30 lines which said: Guys, No gals on NANOG? The attacks comes from various sites from the other side of the pond (46.165.197.xx, 213.152.180.yy). How can you be sure? With UDP, you have zero

Re: really nasty attacks

2012-09-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:34 , Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:55:58AM -0600, Miguel Mata mm...@intercom.com.sv wrote a message of 30 lines which said: Guys, No gals on NANOG? Many. Although in fairness, some people use guys in a gender-neutral

Re: really nasty attacks

2012-09-27 Thread Jim Mercer
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:12:50PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:34 , Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:55:58AM -0600, Miguel Mata mm...@intercom.com.sv wrote No gals on NANOG? Many. Although in fairness, some people use

Re: really nasty attacks

2012-09-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:12:50PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote a message of 32 lines which said: I do not know of any name servers that reply to queries with UDP packets filled with only the letter X. The DNS Headers alone require more than the letter X. Yes, you're

Re: really nasty attacks

2012-09-27 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 27, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:34 , Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:55:58AM -0600, Miguel Mata mm...@intercom.com.sv wrote a message of 30 lines which said: Guys, No gals on