It could also be a really cleaver security ploy to see if there are any close matches to your domain name or URL that turn up copycats or bad guys.
For example, typing Walmrat into Chrome and pressing Ctrl+Enter used turn up a copycat Walmart site, but now one accesses a correctly spelled Walmart URL and the actual website. As another illustration, at least it used to be common with misspelled bank names to access a copycat website or one or more claiming a special connection to the actual bank. The Web is like Europe before and during the 1100 s when it was common for unemployed soldiers to roam the highways and byways looking for people to rob and damsels to distress. We need something like knighthood, the first state police. Charles Elliott From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Ondrej Surý Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 3:30 PM To: Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: [External] strange queries incrementing letter by letter aka browsers -- Ondřej Surý — ISC (He/Him) My working hours and your working hours may be different. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside your normal working hours. On 7. 5. 2021, at 21:11, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org <mailto:ma...@isc.org> > wrote: Some piece of software trying to speed up resolution by resolving names as you type. -- Mark Andrews On 8 May 2021, at 04:21, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@pccc.com <mailto:kmcgr...@pccc.com> > wrote: Weird. Thoughts are: Bad software? What we call ratware. UDP/TCP Firewall issues? Regards, KAM On 5/7/2021 1:32 PM, Kevin Kretz wrote: I see occasional series of queries like this, from within my network and among disparate types of host (linux, windows): If there's a host called hostname.mynet.com I'll see a sequence of queries like hostname.m hostname.my hostname.myn hostname.myne hostname.mynet hostname.mynet.c hostname.mynet.co hostname.mynet.com Can anyone tell me what this is? thanks Kevin _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org <mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- <PCCC-Logo-Vertical-Blue-75x75.png> <raptor-logo-vertical-blue-75x75.png> Kevin A. McGrail CEO Emeritus Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation <phone_sig_icon_orange.png> +1.703.798.0171 <email_sig_icon_orange.png> kmcgr...@pccc.com <mailto:kmcgr...@pccc.com> <web_sig_icon_orange.png> https://pccc.com/ <web_sig_icon_orange.png> https://raptoremailsecurity.com <location_sig_icon_orange.png> 10311 Cascade Lane, Fairfax, Virginia 22032-2357 USA _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org <mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org <mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
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