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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:02:35 +0200
From:      Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   dhclient going crazy...
Message-ID:  <1965488492.20020424150235@buz.ch>

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Hello,
I'd very much like to hear explanations for the following incident
which left me with a blocked cable modem (and thus complete lack of
broadband and high telephone bills because of all the support calls
this required, nice, uuh) as the ISP feels I've been running DoS
attacks
against its DHCP servers:

Apr 22 19:02:45 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:02:45 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:02:45 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.129.1
Apr 22 19:02:45 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:02:45 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:02:45 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:05:22 delta /kernel: arp: 217.162.128.1 moved from
00:30:94:06:12:a8 to 00:30:94:06:12:54 on rl0
Apr 22 19:08:11 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:08:11 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:11 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.130.62
Apr 22 19:08:11 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:08:11 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.130.144
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.130.157
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.130.163
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:08:12 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:17:19 delta /kernel: arp: 217.162.128.1 moved from
00:30:94:06:12:a8 to 00:30:94:06:12:54 on rl0
Apr 22 19:28:24 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:28:24 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:28:24 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.131.219
Apr 22 19:28:24 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:28:24 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:28:24 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:30:13 delta /kernel: arp: 217.162.128.1 moved from
00:30:94:06:12:a8 to 00:30:94:06:12:54 on rl0
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.130.247
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address:
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New IP Address (rl0): 217.162.130.248
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (rl0): 255.255.248.0
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (rl0):
255.255.255.255
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Routers: 217.162.128.1
Apr 22 19:35:41 delta dhclient: New Network Number: 217.162.128.0


This went one for some more minutes, then stopped and restarted about
one hour later, went on for about ten minuted and stopped, the whole
cycle was repeated for several hours from 17:00 to 23:XX. What is
happening here? And how can I prevent it from happening again?

The ISP suggests I was running some MAC address faking script that
would
continously regenerate MAC addresses which I sure as hell didn't and
I'm 99.9% sure that the box didn't got cracked, but the other
interface in it (its primary job is running ipnat for the LAN behind
it) (dc0) was experiencing weird problem (watchdog timeouts...).



TIA & Best regards,
 Gabriel

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