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

[Ken Rice]

The amount of traffic isnt that much... The real load on the system is the
sip server trying to auth all those attempts..


On 10/14/13 12:17 PM, "Mimiko" <vbvbrj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14.10.2013 19:59, 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.
> 
> Yep. Now I called internet provider to inform about the attack and them
> to block that IP because we have monthly limit on this provider.

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