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Re: Large number of DNS probes in last 24 hours


From: Jim Wise <jwise () draga com>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 00:34:31 -0400 (EDT)

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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against unpublished non-recursive DNS servers in the last 24 hours or 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.

- -- 
                                Jim Wise
                                jwise () draga com
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