[DNSOP] watching the watchers

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Sat, 20 March 2021 08:36 UTC

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out of curiousity, you might look at the dns queries getting rejected by
your firewall. in the example below, note that i don't use the all-zeroes
host address on any of my subnets.

root@fw1:/home/vixie # dnscap -p -i ipfw0 -g -
[57] 2021-03-20 08:27:53.537554 [#0 ipfw0 4095] \
        [128.119.245.101].52482 [24.104.150.0].53  \
        dns QUERY,NOERROR,40885,rd \
        1 xvideos.com,IN,AAAA 0 0 0
^C
dnscap: signalled break

most of the folks scanning me guess a non-zero host field:

[59] 2021-03-20 08:31:50.706174 [#0 ipfw0 4095] \
        [47.254.120.156].47204 [24.104.128.146].53  \
        dns QUERY,NOERROR,55452,rd \
        1 www.yahoo.com,IN,A 0 0 0
[56] 2021-03-20 08:31:52.571584 [#1 ipfw0 4095] \
        [88.80.186.137].18127 [24.104.150.171].53  \
        dns QUERY,NOERROR,8792,rd \
        1 amazon.com,IN,A 0 0 0
[52] 2021-03-20 08:31:57.003934 [#2 ipfw0 4095] \
        [143.198.215.243].983 [24.104.150.157].53  \
        dns QUERY,NOERROR,2,rd \
        1 vtk.be,IN,ANY 0 0 0

none of these addresses has ever offered any kind of name service.

watching the watchers is a little bit fun.

-- 
Paul Vixie