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Subject: Re: Large number of DNS probes in last 24 hours
From: Jim Wise <jwise () draga ! com>
Date: 2008-05-31 4:34:31
Message-ID: alpine.NEB.1.10.0805310030030.1704 () himring ! draga ! com
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On Fri, 30 May 2008, Michael Still wrote:
>Jim Wise wrote:
>> I've seen a surprising number of attempted recursive DNS requests
>> against unpublished non-recursive DNS servers in the last 24 hours or
>> so, many of them obviously probes of some sort (query for "." IN NS,
>> eg).
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing this? Is it new? Or did some botnet just reach
>> this corner of the IP space?
>
>I have seen PlanetLab experiments doing this. What are the originating
>IP addresses?
Three observed source addresses
208.78.169.237
204.11.51.62
194.199.24.101
Source ports are high and non-repeating. Other than the domain root,
A-record queries for "google.com" and for hostnames which appear to be
on the same subnet as the querying host.
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Jim Wise
jwise@draga.com
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