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

[Nathan Neulinger]

Yeah, that's my point - does the load decrease if it "gets in", or does it just continue brute forcing?

-- Nathan

On 10/14/2013 12:25 PM, Ken Rice wrote:
> 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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