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RAX200 - DDOS Attacks - A LOT of them...
I'm getting tons of DDOS attacks, ack, fraggle, smurf, etc.. I "think" its from my PoE Ring doorbell elite which is hardwire connected via my netgear PoE switch which is connected to my RAX200 route...
Netgear is great at creating false reports of DoS attacks. Many of them are no such thing.
Search - NETGEAR Communities – DoS attacks
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
Your attacks are from places you may recognise – Google and Amazon.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have been using whois to try to ID, most are google with no other info. There are a few from Apple, Akamai (PS4?) and a few Amazon.... But the 172.xxx.xx.xx I get 9 or so hits every couple minutes. Its a bit un-nerving.
There has been a lot of chat about this lately, with some confused messages.
You can turn off that bit of logging, or you can just live with it. The point is that the router is blocking stuff that should not get through.
Turning off logging can help to deal with stability problems if there are so many log entries that the processor gets overworked and slows down when doing it normal work.