Re: DOS attack?

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I saw that post too; I was hoping someone on midrange.com could 
answer it.  Makes it sound like a router problem, not an actual attack.  
Thanks Bill.

Bill wrote:
> Peter Dow (ML) wrote:
>   
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I've got a Netgear router doing some logging and it's reporting tons of 
> > stuff like this:
> >
> > [DOS attack: FIN Scan] attack packets in last 20 sec from ip [66.75.159.89], Friday, 08 Feb 2008 13:01:00
> > [DOS attack: FIN Scan] attack packets in last 20 sec from ip [77.73.32.120], Friday, 08 Feb 2008 13:00:37
> >   
> >     
>
> You are not alone: 
> http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?p=90868#post90868
>
> No answer to the problem, though.  Make sure you have the latest 
> firmware installed.
>
> Bill
>