Possible DoS attack?

[derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net (Derek Martin)]

Today, John Abreau gleaned this insight:

> 
> In the meantime, we got a report from someone that the system is pounding
> their network on port 113, at roughly 50-60 request per minute. The
> excerpt from their logs looks like thes (ip addresses obscured):
> 
>     Aug 25 08:00:14 avgo-br2 avgo-br2, list 101 denied tcp
>     xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(13361)(Ethernet v2 0050.2ac2.14a0) -> yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy(113), 1 packets
> 

Port 113 is the identd service, which allows tcp connections from clients
(which are usually themselves servers of some service) to identify the
originator of a request.  This sounds to me like it could be consistent
with a DoS attack.

To echo a sentiment of my esteemed colleague, "Why can't everyone just be
nice?!?!"  

  --Paul Lussier

-- 
You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
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Derek D. Martin              |  Unix/Linux Geek
ddm at MissionCriticalLinux.com |  derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net
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