Hi Am 2014-11-06 14:27, schrieb Puneet Agarwal: > I have a couple of servers, for the past few days I am seeing lots of > connections in SYN_RECV state in netstat commands output. This *could* be the result of a SYN-flood attack on your server. > Is there a solution to this problem? The Wikipedia page mentions some countermeasures (if it indeed is an attack and not a networking stack issue). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_flood Maybe you could check from which IP addresses these SYNs come from and investigate why they do not answer to the SYN-ACK request of your server. Cheers, Silvan _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies