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Getting Bombed With DDos Attacks
Since switching to a CAX30 from a C7000v2 a month ago, as noted in the subject headline, Norton has blocked them effectively. This one was the most recent, and the IP address is Comcast in Burlington...
CAX30 is just reporting what's happening.
Typical false Netgear home-made positive of return traffic due to a wonky consumer router implementation.
Its about retrun traffic used form your own honme network, devices, computers, ... accessing whatver cloud or Web services , hosted on Digital Ocean.
Issue exists for virtually decades, the same decades old code is re-used on all router generations. Nothing the ISP or eg. Digtal Ocean can do about.
No idea why Netgear is still ignoring the many reports ....
This one was the most recent, and the IP address is Comcast in Burlington, VT. Comcast security has been notified.
This is your own router public IPv4 address 8-), isn't it?
Or it's one of your virtual neighbours operating e.g. a Windows system, without using a NAT router ....