North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [nsp] known networks for broadcast ping attacks
Well ever since this but was introduced to the outside world, I have since modified my present Firewall (ipfwadm v2.3.0) to accomodate. type prot source destination ports deny icmp 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.255 any deny icmp 0.0.0.255 0.0.0.0 any Depending on the nature of the attack, that will handle it. I have tested it and It has worked on my local machine. But the best thing to do is if you find no need for a broadcast ICMP message, simply filter it at the router. [email protected] wrote: > > The real problem I see with this particular attack is that there is > > nothing short of blocking all ICMPs that 'victim.com' can do. At > least > > not that I am aware of. > > Well, I've been filtering ICMP for quite a while at my border routers, > > and other than the occasional braindead sendmail configuration, and > the fact that Solaris ping can't handle the "Administratively > prohibited" > return from the IOS filter rule, I've yet to see a major downside. > > We have a very large quantity of people hitting our network every day. > > Is there a specific reason that you can see to allow ICMP inbound to > a 'victim.com'? Or at least to more than a handful of specific > addresses? Perhaps there's a better solution with some sort of ICMP > "proxy" at or just behind the router? > > Paul > ---- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul D. Robertson > [email protected] -- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Steven Nash ph: (516)248-8400ext25 Systems Engineer / Network Security fax: (516)248-8897 Lightning Internet Services LLC email: [email protected] http://www.lightning.net --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
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