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What is access log actually showing
I have a Nighthawk, R6700 v2 wireless router. When looking at the access log, I have a question on what is appearing there. Are the items displayed simply items that attempted connection, or are th...
DoS attacks are blocked, period, but are logged. You should not have "Disable Port Scan and DoS Protection" checked on the Advanced tab, on left Setup, WAN setup page. If you uncheck that box you lose that protection and they will get in. No need to block that IP Address as long as that box is unchecked, router never lets them in to even be blocked.
If they ARE legitimate and the router rejected a valid packet, TCP/IP is smart enough to regenerate the packet and it eventually gets to you. If logging in, you might notice it took longer.Multiple DoS entry seconds apart are more than likely to be a real attack, although in some cases it is just someone trying ping you I think. If they are very fast, seconds apart, the router is supposed to shutdown entry for everything for a few minutes, but I have NEVER seen that happen.
For anyone that is looking for a good toolset site to use (and I know there are many out there), a good one is here: https://www.ultratools.com/ .
Thanks for that. Very useful
I will add it to my favourite set of utilities, Nirsoft.
If you are in a hurry, and don't want to be bothered with the 'home page' crap of the toolset site, you can just go to: https://www.ultratools.com/tools/ipWhoisLookupResult . Don't be thrown off by the comment that you will see in a box "Sorry, there was a problem.
- The domain/hostname is invalid. ".
All you need to do is enter a valid IP address in the box below that and you are good to go.
Have a good rest of the week!