SYN Flood Attack
May 3, 2009
someone decided to attack my webserver and I can't figure out how to block it.
tcp 0 0 localhost:80 207.44.129.88:2138 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 localhost:80 207.44.129.88:2243 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 localhost:80 213.66.121.211:63372 SYN_RECV
It's literally thousands of those requests overloading apache. The server is fine, the load average is like .8. But none of the website are loading.
We're hosting with ThePlanet, and they're doing a great job at blocking a huge portion of the attack. But we're still getting hit pretty hard. I've got APF installed, and 3 or 4 anti-dos scripts.
Every once in a while a page will load for the websites, I think we've got just under 50 legit connections.
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Jul 28, 2009
We are currently experiencing an SYN Flood attack on our primary production server and are looking for some help in resolving the issue.
Running:
Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2-64
SuperMicro X7DBR-E Intel Xeon QuadCore DualProc SATA [2Proc]
Processor Intel Xeon-Clovertown 5320L-QuadCore [1.86GHz]
8GB Memory
@ Softlayer DC in Texas.
Need help within the next hour or two. Please ask any necessary follow up questions and how you might go about resolving the issue (i.e. SYN Cookies, etc.)
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Jan 11, 2007
my server under attack with syn flood and i attach the active connection during attack
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May 11, 2009
I've been getting a syn flood for the last week or so.
I've pretty much tried everything I could online but have been unsuccessful in stopping them.
I talked to the data center techs and they basically can't put a stop to it either.
Here's a very small portion of my netstat
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 86.50.121.144:8540 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 41.100.16.152:7824 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 52.53.22.7:3146 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 77.217.49.124:1659 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 75.162.93.151:3230 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 113.85.63.249:1656 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 15.253.35.29:8849 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 24.56.59.180:6911 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 33.185.99.83:1917 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 103.5.8.249:4782 SYN_RECV -
root@xxx [/]# netstat -nap |grep SYN |wc -l
2008
The IP's change often and it's not possible to narrow it down.
So far the things I have done;
syn cookies enabled
reduced time out
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_syn_recv
increased
echo "150000" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
installed apf but it slowed down the server to a crawl which made my clients really unhappy so had to remove it.
The bandwidth is constantly staying at 30Mbps with slight bumps here and there but every day around 7pm it drops completely to normal levels and the flood stops. It starts back up around 7 in the morning.
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Jun 11, 2008
How can I best work with a syn flood? I've tried the apf, deflate-ddos etc.... and don't work. Even tried litespeed etc but doesn't work against a 90mbps attack.
If I get a few servers, how would I have it setup to best defend?
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Jul 25, 2008
one of my server were hit by massive ddos syn atack. target was port 80-apache
i am running centos 5 in xen vps iptables were strong with syn filtering and limit
but...what can do?
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Mar 8, 2008
I don't know it anymore. Tried everything. I can not reach my server properly. A lot of time time out.
netstat -anp |grep 'tcp|udp' | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
1 127.0.0.1
1 38.99.44.101
1 64.131.90.38
1 78.176.158.75
1 78.179.73.135
1 88.229.70.143
1 88.242.97.204
1 88.247.87.58
1 92.112.211.223
3 78.176.175.136
3 88.229.40.142
3 88.231.180.181
4 78.183.227.146
18 0.0.0.0
348
348 connections from an empty IP? i have tried syn cookies, let the firewall block all ports without results.
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May 28, 2008
Can anyone share tips how to prevent DNS flood on a cPanel and Directadmin server platform on Centos?
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May 29, 2008
Does keepalive off help in syn flood?
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May 4, 2008
My server run after 10h sevices ftp is down (network error: connection timed out). may be flood ftp.
how to Detect flood ftp.
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Apr 4, 2008
We got hit with a huge bandwidth bill for last month. It was 4X our usual bill. The ISP said that we were the victim of UDP flood attacks from an outside server. We have a sonicwall router and the firewall seems to be blocking the port that the ISP claims the attacks can from. Is it possible that the attacks would still count towards our bandwidth usage even if the connection is refused by our firewall? Our ISP uses 95th percentile billing.
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Oct 30, 2007
One of the servers have 1 account on, but seems like its extremely attacked. I cannot SSH and many packet loss. so I asked softlayer and they access it and said its a SYN Flood as from the /var/log/messages (I cannot see it as the server is not accessable) they put the main public ip under Cisco guard but still didn't help. when I asked for any solution, unfortunaly I were told there isn't and have to wait the attackers to stop as it comes from MANY addresses that iptables even won't help.
Isn't there any solution (software-hardware) to stop that ?
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Jun 25, 2008
one of my costumers server is getting ddos attacks. I solved syn and get attacks with litespeed web server but I have another problem. They started to do udp flood. I m losing connection to my server. I bought new server with 1 gbit port for solving it.
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Oct 27, 2008
flood in FTP and brute force
all day i receved msgs of BFD someone trying acess server, how to stop it, exemple:
Executed ban command:
/etc/apf/apf -d 221.186.164.233 {bfd.pure-ftpd}
The following are event logs from 221.186.164.233 on service pure-ftpd (all time stamps are GMT -0500):
Oct 25 13:52:37 svr1 pure-ftpd: (?@221.186.164.233) [INFO] New connection from 221.186.164.233
Oct 25 13:52:37 svr1 pure-ftpd: (?@221.186.164.233) [INFO] New connection from 221.186.164.233
Oct 25 13:52:38 svr1 pure-ftpd: (?@221.186.164.233) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [router] ....
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Jul 26, 2009
I use Outpost Firewall to view active connections to my server. If I don't restart the httpd service on a regular basis my server will grind to a halt from being flooded by robots.
I currently have the service set up to restart at Midnight and Noon every day. Sometimes that's enough, lately it's not. For example, I checked an hour ago and I had 385 connections to httpd. At least 50% of the connections were robots - tons of the same IP addresses and they're just crawling the site.
Almost all of the connections show up as less than 1kb bytes received and 0 bytes sent per connection.
I already have a good 20 connections by these robots and the connection time shows as 11 minutes... I just browsed to a web gallery page on my site figuring that'd be mildly "intensive" on connections with all the thumbnails and my connections aren't lasting more than one minute.
So, what's with all these connections that are lasting 10+ minutes? I've even got one connection that has an Uptime of 30 minutes, bytes sent 65811, bytes received 180. It seems like something with these robots doesn't terminate correctly...
what to do so these connections quit jamming my server up? It's like a very very slow DOS...
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Aug 1, 2007
When I check on port 80 connections, I get a list of few IPs with more than 100 connections.
I need to know which website / specific file being downloaded / URL is the IP accessing to? How can I do that?
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Jun 20, 2007
some of my friend website is under attack by Ddos ; FLOOD ; and other way to down his site !
how can we save him from these attacks?
else the firewall!
1- is there any program or script to prevent these attacks!
2- is there any rules or script's for Firewall to prevent it!
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Jun 5, 2015
I serve large professional documents, and sometimes links to them end up on social media. No big deal, but I think people clicking on them from tose social media sites don't have a clue. They think they're being directed to small page, when in fact they are downloading megabytes of pdf -- myfile.pdf. So what I've started to do is to redirect requests from social media to an archive page, where they can see specifically what document they are trying to get, and recognize its size before they ask for it. No problem, right? I just do
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Mar 11, 2008
Quote:
Mar 10 20:17:55 host kernel: printk: 102 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:17:56 host kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:18:01 host kernel: printk: 98 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:18:35 host kernel: printk: 34 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:18:51 host kernel: printk: 189 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:18:56 host kernel: printk: 195 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:02 host kernel: printk: 249 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:06 host kernel: printk: 36 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:21 host kernel: printk: 3 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:26 host kernel: printk: 342 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:31 host kernel: printk: 509 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:47 host kernel: printk: 54 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:51 host kernel: printk: 421 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:19:56 host kernel: printk: 542 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:20:01 host kernel: printk: 785 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:20:16 host kernel: printk: 340 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:20:21 host kernel: printk: 337 messages suppressed.
Mar 10 20:20:26 host kernel: printk: 430 messages suppressed.
Or is this something else? It's been going on for about 40 minutes. I seen my load jump to 20, to 100 and back and fourth
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May 24, 2009
I'm sure that i have Trojans and Viruses on my Server but every time i contacted My Company they ask me to pay money and then they will check and scan my server
so is it any Free application which can scan and remove all bad files on my Server? i'm looking for free applications to scan the whole server
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Jul 18, 2009
My server stop responding, I couldn't access via webmin or ssh, and DNS were not responding, so I have to ask for a reboot and now everything is fine.
Looking at the logs I found this:
Code:
Jul 18 19:23:12 server sshd[18484]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 56817 ssh2
Jul 18 19:23:12 server sshd[18485]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 60227 ssh2
Jul 18 19:23:13 server sshd[18488]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 38038 ssh2
Jul 18 19:23:15 server sshd[18493]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 49884 ssh2
Jul 18 19:24:30 server sshd[18497]: Failed password for root from 61.145.196.117 port 37929 ssh2
Jul 18 19:25:06 server sshd[18521]: Did not receive identification string from 61.145.196.117
Jul 18 19:25:09 server sshd[18508]: Did not receive identification string from 61.145.196.117
Jul 18 19:25:14 server sshd[18505]: fatal: Timeout before authentication for UNKNOWN
Jul 18 19:26:00 server sshd[18509]: Did not receive identification string from 61.145.196.117
And searching that IP on google I found it here: http://www.tcc.edu.tw/netbase/net/in...?fun=240&prd=3
And is flagged as a SSH Attack.
Any ideas why my server stopped working? and how to prevent it?
Im using CentOS 5.0
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Jun 11, 2009
i found my site load slowly, the cpu load is good. I run this command
[root@host ~]# netstat -nap |grep SYN |wc -l
526
It's seem my server is having problem with SYN attack. Is there anyway to protect it ?
I'm running apache 2.
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May 12, 2009
My site currently in prolong HTTP flood attack since 2 weeks ago. The attack was never stop and for this moment i could only mitigate the attack using my own firewall (hardware).
Since my ISP is not interested to help from upstream, even provide any mitigation services, i could only doing mitigation on my own source or using proxy services alternatively as well, but i've chose to tried on my own. I've tried once on one of well-known mitigation services out there but it seems not fully satisfied me since most of legitimate traffic is blocked from their source.
What i could do now is keep staying alive as well as will not going down on whatever situation becomes worst (but if the attack change to udp attack, i couldn't help myself coz there must be high incoming bandwidth into my network). My network is totaling 10MB last time but since this attack i've been forced to subscribe for 30MB in order to keep balance on the attack.
I've blocked all access except for my country and some other neighbours. If i change policy to allow all countries, the load of firewall will become max and after that hang will hang in less than a minute. I've done load balancing of 4 servers (8GB memory each one) and it seems the condition is getting under control with slight problem of server hang (memory shortage) and very limited keep alive connection.
Now what am i thinking is to buy a router objectively to null route incoming specific IP of countries so i can change my firewall policy to allow all connections as well as to help the firewall itself release its burden halting blocked IP that currently keep hitting itself that could might impact its performance.
Which brands of router is possible doing this thing?
Do you have some other suggestions instead of buying router?
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Apr 12, 2008
i am just having one issue in one of my highly visited website hangibar.com, its being hosted in softlayer, we are facing synattack too much in this website.
the solution which microsoft given in their website related with tcp/ip registry entry but thing is same , some where and some connections become increases too much over tcp/ip. due to that reason website become very sticky and it stop functioning the execution of sql process, during this issue i have to restart the server to establish a fresh connection.
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Dec 9, 2008
im getting a syn attack and my vps getting overloaded what im doing is banning ip's that gets most connections
after banning server get normal but if there anyway to stop this post method
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Oct 30, 2008
My server is under dos attack (http) , I have installed APF firewall and ddos deflate. I configure them to work together.
now if any IP with more than 100 connections is black listed by dos deflate, I can see it in apf's deny_hosts.rules file.
everything seems correct, but my server still very slow.
the ip which is causing that has more than 1000 request and is blacklisted.
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May 15, 2007
There are lot of perl process with 100% usage on server. When i tried to view error_log it shows following:
[root@local ~]# tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log
=> `Lnx.txt'
Resolving gihkus.com... 208.98.48.116
Connecting to gihkus.com|208.98.48.116|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16,577 (16K) [text/plain]
0K .......... ...... 100% 316.78 KB/s
05:26:03 (316.78 KB/s) - `Lnx.txt' saved [16577/16577]
When i tried to view this http://gihkus.com/Lnx.txt it seems to be attack on my server. http://gihkus.com/Lnx.txt is not hosted by us. I have disabled perl support on all domains hosted on our server but still we are under attack. There is nothing special in /tmp.
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Jan 4, 2007
Over the past day one of my servers has seen a huge rise in incomming traffic (from normal web requests to a constant 4Mbit/s, peaking upto 80Mbit/s). My outgoing traffic has remained at its normal profile, so I am pretty sure that these are not web requests, and it does not seem to be having an adverse effect on the server (the site still runs perfectly well and quick and load is still less than 1).
However, I am unsure as to how to identify what this traffic is? Are there any easy ways to tell on a FreeBSD server what the source and type of incomming traffic is? I have tried playing with netstat, but an not getting anything useful - I would like to see which ports are involved.
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Jul 15, 2007
Am Really suffering here for ddos attack ( apache - pop3 ) every week my server under attack am using APF but now am really wanna get red from it am looking for a powerfull firewall I do not know if CSF Could stop this attack like limiting receiving SYN from an ip or any other policy another thing . i have get this rules from forums but am really weak at iptables rules so can any one help my if these rules useful or not . against Dos attack:
iptables -t nat -N syn-flood
iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -m limit --limit 12/s --limit-burst 24 -j RETURN
iptables -t nat -A syn-flood -j DROP
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -d (dest ip) -p tcp --syn -j syn-flood
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May 29, 2009
My server is using too many httpd process..I think iam under DDOs attack..I executed the following command..
netstat -an | grep :80 | sort
and the result is this
tcp 0 1491 ::ffff:95.211.10.169:80 ::ffff:213.215.100.110:2263 LAST_ACK
tcp 0 1493 ::ffff:95.211.10.169:80 ::ffff:85.207.126.231:52694 LAST_ACK
tcp ....
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