Re: UDP traffic

Sherwood Pekelo (spekelo@iav.com)
Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:11:37 -1000 (HST)

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, AIS Technical Staff wrote:

> Greetings...
>
> This isn't exactly a PM question, but not sure where else to look. I had some
> seriously heavy traffic hitting a user today and it appeared to be the cause of
> a serious system slow-down. To make sure, before I filter it out on everyone,
> I am hoping to find out what it is. Came from 208.195.152.203.7648 - UDP.
>
> Anyone familiar with what service uses UDP 7648? I have checked the RFCs, but
> they only mention DNS on port 53.
>
> Any information would be appreciated, even just a point in the right direction
> to look for info. Thanks! :-)

syn-fluding? was it generating time_waits or something similar?

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Aloha,

Sherwood