[CentOS-mirror] DDOS Attacks

Which tool did you use to get this output, perhaps it is not an attack  or do you have any kind of log to complement the output?—
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Paul Stewart <pstewart at nexicomgroup.net>
wrote:

> Thanks for the input.  This is new and just started today - it’s
> definitely an attack towards the server.  We are seeing the exact same
> attacks now against other servers but all day until about an hour ago it
> was the CentOS mirror specifically (which may have just been dumb luck).
> If nobody else is seeing anything like this then that’s good news - the
> closest in the past that we have seen is Chinese IP addresses downloading
> the same ISO images over and over.  This attack is seeing the source IP
> addresses worldwide (about 175 of them on average) indicating it’s botnet
> related likely.
> The attacks look like this:
> Type:        TCP SYN Misuse
> ID:          198828
> Resource:    xx.xxx.xx.2/32 Other
> Router:      Not Applicable
> Interface:   Not Applicable
> Severity:    high
> Impact:      662.58 Mbps/93.27 Kpps
> Started:     2014-08-05 23:55:40
> Ended:       2014-08-06 00:02:41
> Link rate:   93.27 Kpps, 186.530000% of 50.00 Kpps
> Protocol:    tcp
> Flags:       S
> Router:      xx.xx.xxx.59 (core1.xxxxxxxxx)
>              Input If.: 694 (xe-4/2/0.101)
>              Output If.: 604 (xe-2/3/0.0)
> URL:         https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thanks,
> Paul
> On 2014-08-05, 7:24 PM, "Anssi Johansson" <centos at miuku.net> wrote:
>>6.8.2014 1.59, Paul Stewart kirjoitti:
>>> Hi there…
>>>
>>> Today, we started getting hit with DDOS attacks specifically against our
>>> CentOS mirror.  Has anyone else seen this behavior before?
>>>
>>> These are TCP SYN and TCP RST misuse type attacks.
>>
>>I don't run a mirror myself, but please note that what you're seeing
>>might be simply yum-plugin-fastestmirror doing what's it's supposed to
>>do. yum-plugin-fastestmirror determines the closest mirror by opening a
>>TCP connection to each mirror and then closing the connection
>>immediately. The time spent is measured, and the fastest mirror as
>>determined by this process gets selected.
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