[nsp-sec] Anyone else seeing a HUGE increase in TCP/1935 from Limelight Networks

RuthAnne Bevier ruthanne at caltech.edu
Mon Jun 16 16:29:29 EDT 2008


We're seeing a little traffic (tcp syn packets) with source port 
1935 to our dark nets, but it's not a huge amount, and not 
restricted to just one source ASN, fwiw.

    --RuthAnne


     
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:13:28PM -0400, Jose Nazario wrote:
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> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, John Fraizer wrote:
> 
> >We've suddenly (since about 1600 GMT today) seen a huge increase in 
> >inbound traffic - a very unnatural curve on our graphs.  I have tracked 
> >this via flows to a large influx of traffic from Limelight networks.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> nothing like that in ATLAS in the past week. here's aggregate scanning 
> from AS22822 in the past 7 days:
> 
> ATLAS Network AS Report
> Global
> AS22822 (LLNW)
> 
> Scans
> Service, Service Name, Bytes per subnet, Percent Total
> tcp/3072, "TCP/3072", 397.220986, 41.4%
> tcp/1024, "TCP/1024", 396.391351, 41.3%
> udp/7462, "UDP/7462", 66.608967, 6.9%
> udp/25119, "UDP/25119", 32.608354, 3.4%
> udp/53, "UDP/53 (domain)", 7.367262, 0.8%
> tcp/25, "TCP/25 (smtp)", 6.799766, 0.7%
> udp/3552, "UDP/3552", 5.869864, 0.6%
> udp/44694, "UDP/44694", 4.812826, 0.5%
> udp/1341, "UDP/1341", 2.741253, 0.3%
> udp/22334, "UDP/22334", 2.46576, 0.3%
> Other, N/A, 36.382606, 3.8%
> 
> 
> even 68.142.0.0/16 (which covers a bunch of the flows you showed) don't 
> show an uptick in TCP/1935
> 
> 
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