I've seen some DNS Zone Transfer attempts from sites that were not secondary DNS for
us. Reached at least one of them and they said they had some old application that
tried to optimize performance by grabbing DNS data rather than using the network.
Pat
Pasquale Scopelliti
Corning Internet Team
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> There seem to be a few servers out there that are trying to communicate with
> my firewall using the nameserver service. The server in question isn't a
> secondary for any of our name spaces, and I can't figure out why it would be
> trying to do this.
>
> What is the nameserver service. I assume it is something to do with DNS.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Craig Little BSc, CPD, CPI, SCJP, CCSA, CCSE
> Inter-networking / Security Consultant
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