Re: Is this a DoS attack?
Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> said:
> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:07 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Earlier today my router showed long periods of flickering, as if
> > data were coming in or going out. I am the only user. Log files do
> > not show anything wrong, nor does chkrootkit, and Top does not
> > indicate any unusual activity. Things seem to be back to normal now.
> >
> > I have firewalling set up in the router and also via shorewall.
> >
> > I have seen this previously on occasion but today was more prlonged.
> > Does it indicate an automated attack of some kind (which failed,
> > presumably)?
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> I've noticed this happening on my Linksys WRT45G as well on occasion.
What time of day is this activity happening? It may well be your
package manager contacting the servers for updates.
Cybe R. Wizard
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