Divine Lunacy

Around 1800 tonight, I was caught in what seems to have been a ddos (distributed Denial of Service). I suddenly found my internet connection lost, and promtly connected to my router. My outgoing seemed to be near dead, and everything incoming was on eiher port 445 or 3531. Port 445 is commonly used for samba, but many times, it is also used by worms that Exploit LSASS. I am running linux, so that is really no threat to me. All signs pointed to me being pinnged to death. My router could not handle all the information coming in, and hence was forced to deny the LAN its services. I have tracerouted some of the Ip addresses. Most of the ones on port 445 seem to be from verizon, and they are in a relitively tight Ip range. The attacks on port 3531 were more varied in ISP. The attack lasted for 15 minutes, until I was finally able to obtain a new ip address. I am now running ethereal incase another attack does happen, this way I will have more info.

I expect to have this template finished very soon. It is getting very tedious tweaking the finer points…I really hate that.

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