Another dumb computer question

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865dude

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I looked at my routers security log and theres a lot of these from the past few days. Most of the ip addresses look like from my house but here are some of the strange ones.
Sun Jul 31 04:03:50 2011 1 Blocked by DoS protection 217.118.92.23
Sun Jul 31 11:59:21 2011 1 Blocked by DoS protection 213.83.130.10
Mon Aug 1 04:34:43 2011 1 Blocked by DoS protection 128.9.160.82
Mon Aug 1 18:15:17 2011 1 Blocked by DoS protection 92.247.12.242
Tues Aug 2 12:49:31 2011 1 Blocked by DoS protection 169.254.121.184
I've probably got 100 of these in the last 3 days. Anyone know what it means or how to stop it if its harmful.
 
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IP locator says those IPs are from Russia, Denmark, South Korea etc
 
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thanks Can I block them somehow? What does it mean for the ones from my own network? Any ideas how to stop this
 
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It's not necessarily a bad thing. DoS means "denial of service" which indicates that your firewall is doing its job.
 
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GAVol said:
It's not necessarily a bad thing. DoS means "denial of service" which indicates that your firewall is doing its job.
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That's good. Do you guys have any tips on setting up a safe network. I don't know much about this stuff and there's a lot of tabs on my router settings.
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looks as though your router is doing a fine job as it is.
 
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pretty sure you're going to get those messages regardless. If they aren't getting thru then your protection is doing it's job
 
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865dude said:
Should wps be enabled or disabled?
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Do you currently use password/encryption for your Wi-Fi access?


WPS is just Wi-Fi Protected Setup. If you already have a password to access and encryption setup for your Wi-Fi... WPS should be disabled.
 
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Yes, I use a password to connect to it. When I called and told them the problem I was having they told me to disable wps, and now I'm not getting dos messages anymore. I wonder why that would stop those problems, any idea?
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865dude said:
Yes, I use a password to connect to it. When I called and told them the problem I was having they told me to disable wps, and now I'm not getting dos messages anymore. I wonder why that would stop those problems, any idea?
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Belkin router?
 
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Could disconnecting the router with my laptop connected be the cause of the DoS messages with my ip address?
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