Protocol 17 floods from Vietnam & Mexico?

Wed Sep 13 13:59:04 UTC 2017

It might be spoofed source IPs

Krunal Shah

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mark Andrews
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:45 PM
To: Large Hadron Collider
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Protocol 17 floods from Vietnam & Mexico?

In message <08ed2903-c81c-aa2e-cd04-4fa117840d14 at gmx.com>, Large Hadron Collider writes:
> Yes, I'm being UDP flooded. I worked that out by grepping /etc/protocols.
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> On 12/09/2017 18:24, Matt Harris wrote:
> > Protocol 17 is UDP.  UDP is pretty common on the internet. Not sure
> > why source and destination ports aren't being shown by your tool
> > there, might be malformed UDP packets designed to obscure themselves
> > from or otherwise evade some intrusion detection or firewall systems.

No ports are listed because they are not the initial fragment of the UDP packet.  Only the initial fragment that contains the UDP header has the ports reported.

Mark
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