Mike Tremaine wrote:
> sysucl wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My LAN is behind an endian firewall box (v.1.1). I upgraded my local DNS
>> servers (bind9) to prevent dns cache poisonning. 
>> My local DNS are configured to forward to OpenDNS servers for the "outside"
>> servers.
>>
>> When I perform a test (e.g. on doxpara website), it seems that i'm still
>> vulnerable.
>> I browsed this forum and upgraded dnsmasq to version 2.43, but it doesn't
>> seem to fix my problem.
>> It seems that the EFW box cancels the benefit of random udp source ports on
>> the bind9 servers;
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this issue ?
>> Thanks
>>
>> ps: I can upgrade to a newer version of EFW if necessary, but I want to be
>> sure this will solve the problem, since it involves interrupting internet
>> access for some time.
>>
>>
> 
> I double checked the DNSmasq upgraded EFW I have deployed and did my 
> local patched server and the results from Doxpara come back the same. It 
> says it appears to be fine but to check this list and then shows some 
> port numbers [which do not seem to change by the way.]
> 
> Another test is to use dns-oarc.net
> 
> dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT
> 
> In windows you can use nslookup
>  > nslookup
>  > set type=txt
>  > porttest.dns-oarc.net
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell the new version of DNSmasq does help but remember 
> that it has to ask an upstream DNS server and word is that lots of ISP's 
> have failed to do the upgrade.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 

PS - There seems to be a DNSmasq 2.45 out which obviously I better build 
into an RPM. :/

-Mike

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