On 06/23/2012 12:03 AM, Andris Kalnozols wrote:
> I'm trying to deal with the following problem:
>
> * My BIND 9.9.1-P1 DNS server is being hammered with a
> reflection/amplification DDoS attack where a small
> (67 bytes) query is causing a large (2577 bytes)
> answer to be sent to the query's forged source address.
>
> * I've applied the rate-limit patch from here:
>
> http://www.redbarn.org/dns/ratelimits
>
> and it works well until the query load get to be about
> 11,000/second and then general packet loss starts to occur.
>
> * After identifying the egregious source addresses with dnstop(1),
> the Shorewall blacklist feature helps very much. While I only
> need to block ten or fewer addresses at a time, this solution
> does not scale because the spoofed addresses are always changing.
>
> I ran across the following article:
>> http://forum.slicehost.com/index.php?p=/discussion/2970/dns-multiplication-ddos-underway/p1
>
> and in my particular case, it would be ideal if I could insert the following
> rule into my Shorewall configuration:
>
> iptables -t raw -I PREROUTING -p udp --destination-port 53 -m string \
> --algo kmp --from <offset> --hex-string "|<some hex data>|" -j DROP
>
> I'm using Debian stable and so the version of Shorewall is 4.4.11
> and have read the following documentation:
>
> http://www.shorewall.net/Actions.html#Extension
> http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_extension_scripts.htm
> http://www.shorewall.net/ManualChains.html
>
> So my question is:
>
> It seems possible to add custom iptables rules in Shorewall but
> I would like to add a rule before connection tracking takes place,
> i.e., the rule should go in the PREROUTING chain of the "raw" table.
> Can this be done within the Shorewall framework?
>
> If so, then could someone indulge me with the high-level steps that
> are needed to achieve this?

Simply put the above iptables command in /etc/shorewall/start.

-Tom

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