Is current DDoS detecting method effective?

Mon Mar 7 22:07:27 UTC 2005

* Jared Mauch:

> 	If you want some "basic" detection, I recommend doing something
> like this:
>
> 	sort by the top "proto+dstip+dstport+tcpflags"
> combination.  The more of these you see, the more it may
> look weird.

You should also run a similar query for source IPs in your netblocks,
particularly one restricted to 25/TCP. 8->

> 	Cisco publishes the netflow datagram specification, so
> you may be able to write an optimized netflow daemon that doesn't
> take up too much cpu/disk/whatnot if you discard the lower
> levels of the "noise".

I wouldn't optimize prematurely.  I was surprised how far you can get
with simple Perl script, a slightly increased socket buffer size for
the receiving UDP socket, and rotating ASCII log files.