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Sunday, May 12, 2019

I wonder what they think they're attacking?

In addition to a self written gopher server I also have a QOTD server accepting requests via TCP and UDP. I never mentioned it as I just put it out there to really see what would happen. I will occasionally see a request go by, but over the past two weeks, some people have really been hitting it hard via UDP:

Requests to the UDP QOTD server (over 1000 requests)
host address requests
host address requests
38.21.240.153 252628
113.113.120.152 18547
148.70.95.145 11529
150.138.92.17 11400
149.248.50.17 9917
123.129.223.133 9373
222.186.49.221 8689
39.105.122.74 8261
182.150.0.73 8098
47.107.64.105 7575
101.132.44.244 5745
170.33.8.193 5566
140.249.60.227 5520
61.160.207.99 5278
47.244.154.2 5084
23.107.43.194 5067
47.101.222.141 5066
47.101.169.118 5024
47.101.68.112 4449
47.102.135.146 4325
47.75.116.41 4200
47.244.36.42 4137
104.25.221.35 3638
144.48.125.176 3440
219.234.29.229 3402
125.88.186.186 3219
47.99.152.166 3167
39.108.51.161 3166
47.101.51.117 3161
210.83.80.21 3154
47.100.96.218 3139
47.101.200.97 3137
120.79.0.221 3090
47.100.183.18 2971
39.96.31.5 2944
47.98.38.120 2758
101.132.182.251 2756
47.107.123.238 2492
139.99.16.112 2290
47.101.157.245 2258
106.14.158.7 2226
47.100.234.2 2183
47.100.201.32 2090
120.79.40.9 2047
47.100.125.115 2037
101.132.37.45 1997
120.78.5.80 1985
47.101.68.50 1950
47.96.172.52 1915
20.188.110.231 1781
106.14.137.34 1118
119.188.250.37 1095

There doesn't see to be much I can find about this, other than a potential link to XBox Live, but that doesn't seem right. It's hard to say. So to see what might be happening, I modified the QOTD program to record anything it receives via UDP. That way, I should be able to figure out if 38.21.240.153 is trying to attack something, or if it really just wants an up-to-date quotes file.

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