Re: DoS attack against TCP services

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it was launched a DoS attack against my server. The attacker opened ssh 
> connections from different servers until all sockets are use.
> 
> I have stopped the ssh service and terminates all processes. 
> Unfortunately, all TCP connections are now in the TIME_WAIT state.
> 
> bash-4.3 # netstat -a -n | grep TIME_WAIT | wc -l
>      34611
> 
> Is there a way to remove it without rebooting the server?

tcpdrop(8)?

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Mindaugas