Re: icmp error in 2.1.125

Patrik Backstrom (pb@techno.org)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:05:39 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Donald Chan wrote:

> Could someone shed some light on what these errors mean.
>
> Jan 6 00:53:00 cloaked kernel: 205.242.4.229 sent an invalid ICMP error
> to a broadcast.
> Jan 6 00:53:06 cloaked kernel: Invalid fragment list: Fragment over size.
> Jan 6 00:53:48 cloaked last message repeated 3 times
> Jan 6 00:54:28 cloaked last message repeated 10 times
> Jan 6 00:55:57 cloaked last message repeated 26 times
> Jan 6 00:56:51 cloaked last message repeated 34 times

You are beeing nuked, probably with teardrop, newtear, nestea, nestea2 or
some similar DoS attack. Check www.rootshell.com and search for one of
those keywords for more info.

/pb

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