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Lots of dos attacks from China?
So I'm getting a bunch of these right now and most of the IP's are from China. What should I do? [DoS Attack: SYN/ACK Scan] from source: 39.107.196.251, port 80, Thursday, October 24, 2019 21:04:...
I mean should I power cycle my modem and prob unit? Or should I call Comcast to change my I'm address?
I do not see how changing the public IP address will accomplish anything. People doing this are simply trying evey possible IP address. Likewise, power cycling the modem or Orbi won't change anything.
(Editorial: This situation is very much like the robo-call mess. If our tiny Orbi can detect that someone is sending "bad packets" our way, surely the ISP network could detect this behavior at the source and take action against the people doing it. Oh, well.)
So it's basically a waiting game at this point.
It will never end. Personally, it reminds me that the internet is a jungle. I like to look through the logs every once in a while, but basically ignore this stuff. People who do not look at router logs are blissfully ignorant, and probably happier, too.
By waiting game I meant wait till it gets back to much less. Since this is unusual for me. Normally I do see IP's from China in my log but today takes the cake in terms of it being minute by minute almost. I did experince some slowdown earlier.