Linux host anti-DDoS and CC attack Solutions

VM service providers may be attacked by hackers during operation. Common attacks include SYN and DDoS attacks. By changing the IP address, it is possible to find the attacked site to avoid the attack, but the service interruption takes a long time. Relatively thorough Solution You can add a hardware firewall. However, hardware firewalls are expensive. You can consider using Linux Virtual Host Server Firewall provided by itself Function To defend against attacks.

1. resist SYN
SYN attacks use the three handshakes of TCP/IP protocol to send a large number of established connections.NetworkPacket, but the connection is not actually established, and eventually the network queue of the attacked server is full and cannot be accessed by normal users.

The Linux Kernel provides several syn-relatedConfiguration, Run the following command:
Sysctl-A grep SYN
See:
Net. ipv4.tcp _ max_syn_backlog = 1024
Net. ipv4.tcp _ syncookies = 0
Net. ipv4.tcp _ synack_retries = 5
Net. ipv4.tcp _ syn_retries = 5

Tcp_max_syn_backlog is the length of the SYN queue, and tcp_syncookies are a function to determine whether to enable syn cookies.
Function to prevent some SYN attacks. Tcp_synack_retries and tcp_syn_retries define SYN
Number of retries.

Increasing the length of the SYN queue can accommodate more network connections waiting for connection. Enabling the SYN Cookie function can block some
SYN attacks can also reduce the number of retries.

Adjust the aboveSetThe method is:
Increase the SYN queue length to 2048:
Sysctl-W net. ipv4.tcp _ max_syn_backlog = 2048
Enable the SYN Cookie function:
Sysctl-W net. ipv4.tcp _ syncookies = 1
Reduce the number of retries:
Sysctl-W net. ipv4.tcp _ synack_retries = 3
Sysctl-W net. ipv4.tcp _ syn_retries = 3

ToSystemYou can add the preceding command to/etc/rc. d/rc. Local when restarting.File.

2. Resist DDoS attacks
DDoS, distributed denial of access attack, refers to the hacker organization from different sources of many hosts, to common ports, such as 80,
25. Send a large number of connections, but these clients only establish connections, not normal access. Generally, the Apache configuration accepts connections.
A limited number (usually 256). These "fake" access will fill up Apache, and normal access will fail.

Linux provides a firewall called ipchains.ToolsTo shield connections to specific ports from specific IP addresses or IP address segments.
To use ipchains to defend against DDoS attacks, you must first use the netstat command to find the source address of the attack, and then use the ipchains command to block the attack.
Attack. One block is found.

* ** Enable the ipchains Function
First, check whether the ipchains service is setAutomaticStart:
Chkconfig -- list ipchains
The output is generally:
Ipchains 0ff 1ff 2n 3N 4N 5N 6ff
If the column 345 is on, the ipchains service has been set to auto start.
If not, run the following command:
Chkconfig -- add ipchains
Set ipchains to auto start
Next, check whether the ipchains configuration file/etc/sysconfig/ipchains exists. If this file does not exist, ipchains
It does not take effect even if it is set to automatic start. The default ipchains configuration file is as follows:

# Firewall configuration written by lokkit
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
# Note: IFUP-post will punch the current nameservers through
# Firewall; such entries will ** not * be listed here.
: Input accept
: Forward accept
Utput accept
-A input-s 0/0-D 0/0-I lo-J accept
# Allow HTTP, FTP, SMTP, ssh, domain via TCP; domain via UDP
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 POP3-y-J accept
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 http-y-J accept
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 https-y-J accept
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 FTP-y-J accept
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 SMTP-y-J accept
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 ssh-y-J accept
-A input-P TCP/IP 0/0-D 0/0 domain-y-J accept
-A input-P udp-s 0/0-D 0/0 domain-J accept
# Deny ICMP Packet
#-A input-p icmp-s 0/0-D 0/0-J deny
# Default rules
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0-y-J reject
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 2049-y-J reject
-A input-p udp-s 0/0-D 0/0-J reject
-A input-p udp-s 0/0-D 0/0 2049-J reject
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 6000: 6009-y-J reject
-A input-p tcp-s 0/0-D 0/0 7100-y-J reject

If the/etc/sysconfig/ipchains file does not exist, you can use the above content to create it. After creation, start the ipchains service:
/Etc/init. d/ipchains start

* ** Use the netstat command to find the attack source
If the hacker attacks port 80 on the web, view the IP address and port of the Client Connected to port 80. The command is as follows:
Netstat-an-t tcp grep ": 80" grep established awk '{printf "% S % s \ n", $5, $6}' sort
Output:
161.2.8.9: 123 fin_wait2
161.2.8.9: 124 fin_wait2
61.233.85.253: 23656 fin_wait2
...
The first column is the Client IP address and port, and the second column is the connection status.
If there are many connections from the same IP address (more than 50 connections) and they are continuous ports, it is likely to be an attack.
If you only want to view the established connection, run the following command:
Netstat-an-t tcp grep ": 80" grep established awk '{printf "% S % s \ n", $5, $6}' sort

* ** Use ipchains to block attack sources
You can use ipchains to block attack sources in two ways. One is to add it to/etc/sysconfig/ipchains, and then restart
Ipchains service. The other is to directly use the ipchains command. After blocking, you may need to restart the attacked service,
Is an established attack connection invalid

* Add/etc/sysconfig/ipchains
Assume that the connection from 218.202.8.151 to 80 is blocked. Edit the/etc/sysconfig/ipchains file in the utput accept
Add the following lines:
-A input-s 218.202.8.151-D 0/0 http-y-J reject
Save the changes and restart ipchains:
/Etc/init. d/ipchains restart
If you want to block the entire network segment of 218.202.8, add:
-A input-s 218.202.8.0/255.255.255.0-D 0/0 http-y-J reject

* Directly use the command line
The method of adding the/etc/sysconfig/ipchains file and restarting ipchains is slow, and when ipchains are restarted,
Some connections may be drilled in. The most convenient method is to directly use the ipchains command.
If the connection from 218.202.8.151 to 80 is blocked, run the following command:

Ipchains-I input 1-P TCP-s 218.202.8.151-D 0/0 http-y-J reject
If you want to block the entire network segment of 218.202.8, run the following command:
Ipchains-I input 1-P TCP-s 218.202.8.0/255.255.255.0-D 0/0 http-y-J reject
Here,-I indicates insertion, input indicates rule connection, and 1 indicates adding to the first one.

You can edit a shell script to make it easier. The command is as follows:
VI blockit
Content:
#! /Bin/sh
If [! -Z "$1"]; then
Echo "Blocking: $1"
Ipchains-I input 1-P TCP-s "$1"-D 0/0 http-y-J reject
Else
Echo "which IP to block? "

Fi
Save, and then:
Chmod 700 blockit
Usage:
./Blockit 218.202.8.151
./Blockit 218.202.8.0/255.255.255.0

The rules created by the preceding command line method expire after the restart. You can use the ipchains-save command to print the rules:
Ipchains-save
Output:
: Input accept
: Forward accept
Utput accept
Saving 'input '.
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-I lo-J accept
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 110:110-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 80: 80-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 22: 22-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 88: 88-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 89: 89-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 90: 90-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 91: 91-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 8180: 8180-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 443: 443-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 21:21-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 25:25-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 22: 22-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 53: 53-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 9095: 9095-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 8007: 8007-P 6-J accept-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 53: 53-p 17-J accept
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 0: 1023-P 6-J reject-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 2049: 2049-P 6-J reject-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 :1023-p 17-J reject
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 2049: 2049-p 17-J reject
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 6000: 6009-P 6-J reject-y
-A input-s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0-D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 7100: 7100-P 6-J reject-y

You need to remove the "Saving 'input'." And save the other content to the/etc/sysconfig/ipchains file,
In this way, after the next restart, the created rules will take effect again.

3. If iptables is used
In rh 8.0 and later versions, iptables is enabled to replace ipchains. The two are very similar and different.
* Enable iptables
If the iptables file does not exist in/etc/sysconfig/, you can create:
# Firewall configuration written by lokkit
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
# Note: IFUP-post will punch the current nameservers through
# Firewall; such entries will ** not * be listed here.
* Filter
: Input accept [0: 0]
: Forward accept [0: 0]
: Output accept [0: 0]
: RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-[0: 0]
-A input-J RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-I lo-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport FTP-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport ssh-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport http-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport SMTP-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport POP3-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport mysql-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport 2001-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport domain-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p udp-m udp -- dport domain-J accept
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport -- syn-J reject
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport 2049 -- syn-J reject
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p udp-m udp -- dport-J reject
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p udp-m udp -- dport 2049-J reject
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport 6000: 6009 -- syn-J reject
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport 7100 -- syn-J reject
Commit
The preceding configuration allows FTP, ssh, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, MySQL, 2001 (ACA port of PRIMA), and domain port.

* Start iptables
/Etc/init. d/iptables start

* Set iptables to auto start
Chkconfig -- level 2345 iptables on

* Use iptables to shield IP addresses
Iptables-I RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT 1-P TCP-M TCP-s 213.8.166.227 -- dport 80 -- syn-J reject
Note that the difference with ipchains is:
-The parameters of the rule name after I are different from those defined in ipchains. They are not uniform input, but defined in/etc/sysconfig/iptables.
-M TCP
The parameter of the specified port is -- dport 80.
More -- SYN parameter, which can automatically detect sync attacks

Disable Ping using iptables:
-A input-p icmp-m icmp -- ICMP-type 8-m limit -- limit 6/min -- limit-burst 2-J accept
-A input-p icmp-m icmp -- ICMP-type 8-J reject -- reject-with ICMP-Port-unreachable

Allow an IP address to connect
-I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT 1-P TCP-M TCP-s 192.168.0.51 -- syn-J accept

Note: The specific port needs to be modified according to the network.