Re: How to get rid of spoofed IP-Address responses

From: Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka (mfrd@attitudex.com)
Date: 05/27/02


Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:10:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka <mfrd@attitudex.com>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com

Well first of all blocking all > 1024 port traffic won't be a good idea. And besides the guy said himself that he was being a victim of SYN RESPONCE with source port 80.
It means somebody tried to reflect his DOS attack towards his webserver. What he needs to do is to filter out SYN+ACK (Responce Packets) which have not been initialized by his webserver.

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