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DoS attacks escalating. Any solution or possible reason.
I'm having a lot of DoS attacks registered in my Orbi Log. I haven't been home all day so I dont think they are false positives. I've already restarted the router which assigned a new IP address to m...
Netgear is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks. Many of them are no such thing.
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Just use whois to see who is behind some of them. You may find that they are from places like Facebook, Google, even your ISP.
Here is a useful tool for that task:
IPNetInfo: Retrieve IP Address Information from WHOIS servers
If you find that there are so many attacks that the router gets bogged down, you could see it if it helps to disable the logging. That does not stop the router from doing its thing. It just doesn't eat up the processor writing things to the logs.