On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:49:35 PDT Robert wrote:

> This afternoon I received 292 log items in 6 seconds.

There was a lot of discussion of these floods on the linux-router
list in late April and May of this year.  IIRC, they are response
time measurement probes that are part of a global load-balancing
scheme.  Hitting certain web sites ( http://www.weather.com/ for me)
will trigger them.

I couldn't find a concise description of the scheme (maybe another
subscriber has one?), but if you search the Geocrawler linux-router
archives from May
  http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/303/2001/5/0/ ,
you'll probably find more information.  I also vaguely remember
a thread on the Security Focus "incidents" list.  I think David
Douthitt, of Oxygen fame, was one of the posters.

There's an ipfilter.conf hack to prevent logging of them at
  http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=5930039&list=303
that you might find useful.

--Brad


> I know that 
> port 53 is related to DNS but beyond that I am fairly naive. The log 
> analyzer at http://www.echogent.com/cgi-bin/fwlog.pl did not have any 
> thin specific to say about these It is interesting to me that all 18 
> of the ips that sent packets did so all with in 6 seconds most of 
> them sending exactly 16 packets each. Any help diagnosing this would 
> be helpful. If they are harmless I will just make up a ipchains rule 
> to not log them. I am using Dachstien rc2.
> Thanks for any insight.
> Robert Williams
> 
> 
> 292
> Oct 25 15:51:01 firewall kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 
> 64.14.200.154:17181 64.171.17.149:53 L=44 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x0000 T=245 
> (#41)
> Oct 25 15:51:01 firewall kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 
> 209.249.97.40:60302 64.171.17.149:53 L=44 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x0000 T=245 
> (#41)
> Oct 25 15:51:01 firewall kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 
> 208.184.162.71:15070 64.171.17.149:53 L=44 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x0000 T=246 
> (#41)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Oct 25 15:51:07 firewall kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 
> 202.139.133.129:16725 64.171.17.149:53 L=44 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x0000 T=243 
> (#41)
> Oct 25 15:51:07 firewall kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 
> 203.208.128.70:32687 64.171.17.149:53 L=44 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x0000 T=241 
> (#41)
> 
> List of offending IPs
> 194.205.125.26
> 194.213.64.150
> 202.139.133.129
> 203.194.166.182
> 203.208.128.70
> 207.55.138.206
> 208.184.162.71
> 209.249.97.40
> 212.78.160.237
> 216.220.39.42
> 216.33.35.214
> 216.34.68.2
> 216.35.167.58
> 62.23.80.2
> 62.26.119.34
> 64.14.200.154
> 64.37.200.46
> 64.56.174.18
> 
> 6
> 64.78.235.14
> 

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