DX

Interestingly, someone has just tried to DoS (perform a Denial of Service -attack) this server. As far as I know, this was the first time my Internet presence has come under a real attack. Everything before this has been normal backgroung noise.

The attack itself was pretty lame. Just a single host (so this wasn't a distributed DoS) in France pushing out 100mbit/s worth of tiny UDP-packets and it lasted for less than 20 minutes. You can see the packet rate from the attached graph.

Here's what our netflow-analyzer had to say about the attack:

Date                 Proto   Src IP Addr:Port         Dst IP Addr:Port Packets   Bytes Flows
2009-10-07 11:16:11  UDP    91.121.17.80:0     ->  217.30.191.125:0     7.0 M    9.3 G   176

In other words, 91.121.17.80 (ns38798.ovh.net) sent me 7 million UDP packets.

And what about the effects of the attack? The websites were a bit sluggish, as the link was saturated, but other than that I didn't notice anything else worth mentioning.