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DoS attacks in log
Hi, I've been getting these Dos attacks from the same ip for a couple days then turned on DoS protection and went away for a day until today I got these DoS attacks. The ip I'm talking about are the ...
I'm sorry my question is if these are DoS attacks toward me or are they using me as a bot to attack someone else? I ask because it seems one is my own isp but the other is a ip from RIPE Network Coordination and it's target is Texas Department of Information Resources.
bp31 wrote:
I'm sorry my question is if these are DoS attacks toward me or are they using me as a bot to attack someone else?
OK. See my answer.
Most people ignore these false alarms.
If you think about it, the alerts just say "we repelled this attack on your system". That there was no attack, just means that the router foiled a non-existent onslaught.