CSF Issues / SYN Floods - Input Please

[Bigstack14]

Ok So over the past weeks my server has been getting pounded with SYN floods. At one point I saw a server load in the 6,600+ range in top.. (dont ask me how ssh was still working but it was slow as hell maybe nginx was helping)

Anyway I have had no luck in blocking these attacks myself so im turning to the community for help. I will list and post up what I have done..

I AM STUCK AT THIS POINT my server is online for 10 minutes then gets hit again. Any help would be AMAZING.

For starters im on CentOS 5 64x ... and I run the NginxCP addon... and have the csf firewall installed below is what I have done.

*side node would hardware ddos like cisco guard stop this?

CSF config file.. Long so Ill attach it -> View attachment csf con.txt

I also have made changes to the as its not as long as the CSF ill just post it (I added the bottom part)

# Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux
#
# For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled.  See sysctl(8) and
# sysctl.conf(5) for more details.

# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0

# Controls source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1

# Do not accept source routing
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0

# Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel
kernel.sysrq = 0

# Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename
# Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications
kernel.core_uses_pid = 1

# Controls the use of TCP syncookies
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1

# Controls the maximum size of a message, in bytes
kernel.msgmnb = 65536

# Controls the default maxmimum size of a mesage queue
kernel.msgmax = 65536

# Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736

# Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages
kernel.shmall = 4294967296

# Custom Edits for hardening
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.lo.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.eth0.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.conf.lo.accept_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.conf.eth0.accept_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 15
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1800
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 1440000

 

[caisc]

I never heard of load at levels - 6,600+
Just curious to know your server config.

 

[gopkris2005]

1,In CSF firewall, there is option available to prevent SYN Floods attack. You have not enabled it. Please enable in CSF config SYNFLOOD = "1"
2, disable ping in CSF firewall ICMP ICMP_IN = "0"
3, You have open many ports in your server, try to disable unwanted ports in TCP_IN = , TCP_OUT =

If possible, past last few lines of /var/log/messages