F9 DOS attack

Dave Feustel dfeustel at mindspring.com
Thu Nov 27 15:20:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:25:26AM +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 06:54 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > I spoke with a Comcast technician yesterday. He said there was nothing
> > Comcast could do and that the problem was that the 'bomber' was able
> > to get my ip address by scanning my system. That seems inconsistent to
> > me.
> 
> If you're chatting with your ISP, I'd ask them if it's just you being
> flooded, or a range of their IP addresses.  Then you'll know if you're a
> direct target.  If they can't work that out, they're hopeless.

I just tried whois 68.87.72.130 (the ip address in all the unsolicited
packets that were coming in) and that is a comcast ip address.
(something to do with 'jumpstart'. Does anyone know anything about this?




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