So recently, around 11 pm every night, give or take 2 hours, my router has stopped working for 10 minutes, and I may have figured out why. I checked my router's logs, and I have been apparently getting Smurf DOS attacks from various IPs. I've traced the IPs, and the "attacks" are coming from China. Is this a false diagnosis of a problem that's actually different from a DOS attack? Restarting my router does not fix it, nor does connecting to it on LAN. No computer in my house is capable of getting internet connection during the 10-minute "attack" period, and there doesn't seem to be a solution other than to let it run its course. All computers can connect to the router, it's just that the router cannot connect to the internet. My router is a NETGEAR WNDR4500. If anyone knows what's going on or if this particular router often has problems like that, I'd love the help.
If you couldn't tell by my post, I'm still not entirely convinced this is a genuine DOS attack, because I've rarely ever heard of random consumers being targets of them. I just have no idea what else the problem could be.
If you couldn't tell by my post, I'm still not entirely convinced this is a genuine DOS attack, because I've rarely ever heard of random consumers being targets of them. I just have no idea what else the problem could be.
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