Thanks Wesley,

That helps a bunch.  In this case it is a Centos box, but I don't think
that is going to cause any problems.

Dave

On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 13:19 -0600, Wesley Duffee-Brahun wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> 
> Here is a link about someone who went through your scenario with a DNS
> server and DDOS
> 
> 
> https://www.debian-administration.org/article/Blocking_a_DNS_DDOS_using_the_fail2ban_package
> 
> 
> 
> Debian, not sure what you are running, but Fail2Ban should be similar
> setup.
> 
> 
>  - Wesley
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:15 PM, David R. Wilson <da...@wwns.com>
> wrote:
>         Thanks Guys,
>         
>         That is part of the problem.  Charter as best I can tell
>         refuses to
>         block anything.  The fail2ban program looks like it might
>         work.  It
>         looks like just a ping to verify the address is legitimate and
>         drop the
>         packet if there is no response would be one way to do it.
>         
>         I will stare at the fail2ban program docs a bit and see what
>         that is
>         going to require.
>         
>         Dave
>         
>         On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 13:02 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>         > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:29 PM, David R. Wilson
>         <da...@wwns.com> wrote:
>         > > I have had a problem with non resolvable IP addresses
>         hitting my DNS
>         > > server (running BIND9) and eating up bandwidth.  I am sure
>         there is some
>         > > instructions on how to assure the IP numbers resolve, but
>         I apparently
>         > > missed the instructions.
>         > >
>         > > Some of those addresses I put into firewall rules to drop
>         the inquiry.
>         > > Since then someone decided random IP addresses were more
>         fun.  Rate
>         > > limiting doesn't seem to help.
>         > >
>         > > Anyone in the group have the short story on how to fix
>         this?
>         >
>         > I'm guessing you're talking about non-routable addresses?
>          Ultimately,
>         > it's going to have to be solved by your upstream backbone
>         provider, in
>         > terms of blocking packets with forged source addresses,
>         since that's
>         > the nature of the problem.
>         >
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