Re: DoS/DDoS Attack

Faisal Khan wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Two quick questions.
>
> When IP (Source) addresses are spoofed, is there no way of determining 
> (a) that the IP Source Addresses is spoofed and not the genuine one 
> (b) to be able to determine the actual IP address that is sending DoS 
> packets?
>
> Somehow I get the feeling I'm SOL when trying to find out the 
> "genuine/actual" source IP address.


I think the problem is that nowadays, it's not one (1!) IP, but possibly 
thousands of zombies - commanded by master-servers that don't directly 
attack you and thus are invisible to you.
Trying to trace them is probably an exercise in futility.


> If this is the case, then pretty much we all are helpless with 
> DoS/DDoS attacks - considering one can write a script/program to keep 
> incrementing or randomly assigning spoofed source addresses in the DoS 
> packets being sent out.


I  haven't looked into this for some time, but last time I heard about 
this, someone said that the ISP must trace through which 
interface/router/linecard the packets actually come through - and then 
ask his upstream to do the same (and so on).
But perhaps, there's a more clever alternative these days.



cheers,
Rainer

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