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On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Andrey Falko <ma3oxuct@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hi folks, |
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> > Today I had some really serious problems with my Gentoo router. I |
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> > could ping it, and all the network connections were in place and |
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> > functional, but no outside access. I looked into it and found that |
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> > the syslog was flooded with this: |
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> > Mar 22 21:25:55 localhost kernel: nf_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. |
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> > Mar 22 21:26:00 localhost kernel: printk: 11 messages suppressed. |
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> > Mar 22 21:26:00 localhost kernel: nf_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. |
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> > Mar 22 21:26:05 localhost kernel: printk: 16 messages suppressed. |
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> > These messages spanned a full 20 hours of the log. I understand that |
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> > conntrack is the connection tracking system that iptables uses. I |
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> > also understand that its maximum is something on the order of 65000 |
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> > simultaneous connections. For a simple home network, I think we can |
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> > agree that I would probably never approach this number of connections |
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> > with normal use. |
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> > So my question is this: what could have caused the router's |
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> > connection tracker to overflow? |
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> > Dan Cowsill |
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> > http://www.danthehat.net |
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> > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
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> What type of 'net services do you run between your home network and |
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> the outside? Is there a possibility that someone out have put a denial |
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> of service attack on you? |
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> gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
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I have SSH to a server, two open ports for bit torrent connections and |
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a few ranges for DCC transfers from irc. |
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The possibility of a DoS attack is pretty real, I imagine. Is there |
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any way I could be sure? |
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Dan Cowsill |
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http://www.danthehat.net |
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