[Nottingham] DDOS

[TJ]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 02:14 +0100, stripes wrote:
> I seem to be being hammered by a flood of UDP packets from about 15
> different address at an on going rate of about 300 Kbps. Just
> installed etherape as the network connection was crawling. It shows I
> am getting hit a lot from Poland and Japan. The only ports open in the
> router are for http and ssl. Where do I go from here to block it or is
> it even possible?

Contact the abuse department at your ISP. If it is severe and ongoing
they should be able to set a temporary block in an upstream
router/firewall.