[Freeswitch-users] What kind of attack is this?

[Nathan Neulinger]

What happens to traffic levels if it does get in? i.e. would it be a more effective countermeasure to let it in, but 
have it not be able to actually do anything? (honeypot/dummy accounts)

-- Nathan

On 10/14/2013 11:59 AM, Steven Ayre wrote:
> Remember unless it gets blocked upstream the packet will still hit your firewall/server. Not FreeSWITCH sure, but it'll
> still consume some resources to receive, identify and block it. The scanner does not care that you're not responding,
> it'll continue to send anyway.
>
>
> On 14 October 2013 15:57, Mimiko <vbvbrj at gmail.com <mailto:vbvbrj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 14.10.2013 17:54, Ken Rice wrote:
>      > This is sipvicious, its a brute force scanner... See
>      > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Fail2ban  on how to setup Fail2ban with
>      > FreeSWITCH to defeat this attack
>
>     Ken thank you. I am planning to set up Fail2ban. But for now need to
>     drop any packet from offending IP.
>
>     --
>     Mimiko desu.
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Nathan Neulinger                       nneul at mst.edu
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