Re: LOW SLOW SMTP DOS from our clients.

Jérémy Lebourdais <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:10:35 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.intrusions
Message-ID <20050406091034.GA5810@Master>
Maybe a "tcpdump -s 0 -w log" on the client side may help ?
Or a router problem ? The client never receive the "go ahead" packet
so it never ACKs it ?
Is it the same mail client on all computers ?
Hmmm, I remember that some Linksys routers are firmware flashable ...
Maybe an update is required, or it has been bad-flashed ?

I guess for a router problem ;-)
Could you tell us what was wrong when you would find it ?

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Lebourdais Jeremy
Student in Network and Computer Sciences in France


Le Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 04:25:34PM -0600, kenneth gf brown a écrit:
> 
> we are attempting to figure out why a series of smtp clients are 
> causing multiple concurent connections attempts on smtp.
> we have isolated a bit of the problem... 
> 
> these are clients authorised to use our out bouncd smtp server
> 
> basicly every 1' 15'' an affected smtp client,  exhibiting a slow low dos
> behaviour, 
> connects to our server. the smtp handshake happens as in the capture
> below... 
> but upon our reciept of this packet (basicly the client starting the DATA
> part of the 
> smtp connection...) after our send of go ahead (twice the client ignores the
> first one)
> see the full capture below.
> 
> 00:26:41.334390 cli.ent.ipa.ddr.2580 > ser.ver.ipa.ddr.smtp: . ack 105 win
> 65431 (DF)
> 0x0000   4500 0028 86c0 4000 7d06 a491 41c2 17ba        E..(..@.}...A...
> 0x0010   d8b1 a050 0a14 0019 59b9 4db3 3790 5e4e        ...P....Y.M.7.^N
> 0x0020   5010 ff97 9646 0000 0000 0000 0000             P....F........
> 
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