On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:27 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote:
> Fail2Ban on a couple of dozen servers may not be sufficient to address 400 > gigs of traffic. > > <you own me a keyboard> Also, also.. keep in mind that 'fail2ban' does some processing on the log messages to which it MAY take action. It's taking, essentially, untrusted external input and ... acting as 'root'. that sounds like a recipe for a disaster, to me... is the code utf-8 safe? are the actions it takes safe in the context of whatever PTR record content may come down the pipe? or apache(equivalent) log message parsing? <shudder> > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Terrance Devor" <ter.de...@gmail.com> > *To: *"Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> > *Cc: *"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> > *Sent: *Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:24:07 AM > *Subject: *Re: VoIP Provider DDoSes > > Fail2Ban and give ourselves a pat on the back.. > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 9:12 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > >> https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/837?autostart=false >> >> >> It looks like Security Now covered this yesterday. They claimed that, >> "There is currently no provider of large pipe VoIP protocol DDoS >> protection." >> >> Are any of the cloud DDoS mitigation services offering a service like >> this. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> >> *To: *"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> >> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 21, 2021 4:19:42 PM >> *Subject: *VoIP Provider DDoSes >> >> As many may know, a particular VoIP supplier is suffering a DDoS. >> https://twitter.com/voipms >> >> Are your garden variety DDoS mitigation platforms or services equipped to >> handle DDoSes of VoIP services? What nuances does one have to be cognizant >> of? A WAF doesn't mean much to SIP, IAX2, RTP, etc. >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> Midwest-IX >> http://www.midwest-ix.com >> >> >
