[asterisk-users] sip attacks

Robert-iPhone rhuddleston at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 18:26:17 CDT 2011


hard to equate sip attack to ping performance.. Run mtr for a bit.
Also try tcpdump or wireshark or tethereal.
If you are really paranoid recycle all your passwords

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 31, 2011, at 7:04 PM, "Dave George" <dgeorge at teletoneinc.com> wrote:

> My asterisk server is getting bogged down every 5 minutes.  My ping time is
> going from 60ms to 800 ms and the call quality is bad.
> 
> I have fail2ban running and I am using iptables.  I have two ip connections
> to the box.
> 
> How can I tell if the poor performance is due to sip attacks?   I don't see
> any reg attempts in my asterisk cli.  I use to get frequent attacks but
> fail2ban seems to be taking care of that.
> 
> See how ping time gets worst in a short space of time and server performance
> at the time:
> 
> 
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=87.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=55 time=99.8 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=55 time=107 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=55 time=115 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=55 time=120 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=55 time=122 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=55 time=123 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=55 time=126 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=55 time=122 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=55 time=142 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=55 time=142 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=55 time=137 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=55 time=186 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=55 time=255 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=55 time=310 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=55 time=387 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=55 time=445 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=55 time=514 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=24 ttl=55 time=583 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=25 ttl=55 time=650 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=26 ttl=55 time=715 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=27 ttl=55 time=783 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=28 ttl=55 time=821 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=29 ttl=55 time=810 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=30 ttl=55 time=832 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=31 ttl=55 time=812 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=32 ttl=55 time=821 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=33 ttl=55 time=826 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=34 ttl=55 time=815 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=35 ttl=55 time=821 ms
> 64 bytes from 4.2.2.1: icmp_seq=36 ttl=55 time=824 ms
> 
> top - 19:02:38 up 4 days, 11:26,  4 users,  load average: 0.36, 0.75, 0.82
> Mem:   4051312k total,  1062964k used,  2988348k free,   167004k buffers
> Swap:  6094840k total,        0k used,  6094840k free,   680144k cached
> 
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 4245 root      15   0  791m  86m  10m S 39.6  2.2   1192:32 asterisk
> 18280 root      15   0  3812  600  516 S  2.0  0.0   0:59.00 pppoe
> 2582 root      15   0  5912  628  504 S  0.3  0.0   2:02.19 syslogd
> 18978 root      15   0 12744 1096  812 R  0.3  0.0   0:00.02 top
>    1 root      15   0 10352  700  588 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.14 init
>    2 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/0
>    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:31.90 ksoftirqd/0
>    4 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
>    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/1
>    6 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:08.43 ksoftirqd/1
>    7 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
>    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.13 migration/2
>    9 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   2:40.56 ksoftirqd/2
>   10 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/2
>   11 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.05 migration/3
>   12 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:44.56 ksoftirqd/3
>   13 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/3
>   14 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 events/0
>   15 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/1
>   16 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/2
>   17 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/3
>   18 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>   55 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
>   62 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.07 kblockd/0
>   63 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kblockd/1
>   64 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/2
>   65 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/3
>   66 root      17  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
>  166 root      17  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/0
>  167 root      18  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue/1
> 
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
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