RE: [External] strange queries incrementing letter by letter

2021-05-08 Thread Charles Elliott 
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 
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Subject: Re: [External] strange queries incrementing letter by letter

 

aka browsers

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On 7. 5. 2021, at 21:11, Mark Andrews mailto:ma...@isc.org> > 
wrote:

Some piece of software trying to speed up resolution by resolving names as you 
type.

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On 8 May 2021, at 04:21, Kevin A. McGrail 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

 





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Re: where are the testing docs ?

2021-05-08 Thread Evan Hunt 
On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Dennis Clarke via bind-users wrote:
> I do NOT trust a build result where I had to go hacking into all the
> Makefiles just to get it to build. You install without doing testing?

I think Ondrej just meant that we haven't put much emphasis on making the
tests user-friendly, since most of the time you *don't* have to hack
makefiles. We generally use the tests to make sure we haven't broken
something while making changes, but we're not expecting everybody to
do so when installing a published release.  That said, I'm *delighted*
to see people running them.

We seem to have inadvertently removed a nice feature when the tests were
revamped a while back - it used to print a helpful message if you ran
"make check" without setting up the environment first, and told you what
you needed to do (specifically, "sudo sh bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up").
I think the message got lost when we switched to automake.

Some tests will be skipped if there are missing dependencies, so you may
also wish to install the Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Nameserver and XML::Simple
modules for perl, and dnspython for python.

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Re: where are the testing docs ?

2021-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke via bind-users 
On 5/8/21 14:13, Evan Hunt wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Dennis Clarke via bind-users wrote:
>> I do NOT trust a build result where I had to go hacking into all the
>> Makefiles just to get it to build. You install without doing testing?
> 
> I think Ondrej just meant that we haven't put much emphasis on making the
> tests user-friendly, since most of the time you *don't* have to hack
> makefiles. We generally use the tests to make sure we haven't broken
> something while making changes, but we're not expecting everybody to
> do so when installing a published release.  That said, I'm *delighted*
> to see people running them.
> 
> We seem to have inadvertently removed a nice feature when the tests were
> revamped a while back - it used to print a helpful message if you ran
> "make check" without setting up the environment first, and told you what
> you needed to do (specifically, "sudo sh bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up").
> I think the message got lost when we switched to automake.
> 
> Some tests will be skipped if there are missing dependencies, so you may
> also wish to install the Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Nameserver and XML::Simple
> modules for perl, and dnspython for python.
> 

Well to be fair the build result seems to be just fine. At least fine
enough on this legacy system. The idea is to rip this machine out of
existence in the next year regardless and that will be the last time I
ever look at Solaris or SPARC. End of an era and I think LawnMower Larry
wants things that way.  So 9.11.31 will be running as a service on some
Fujitsu SPARC64 boxen until Jan next year and that is he end of that.

For that matter, even Fujitsu tossed the platform out a window and they
built their latest supercomputer with arm64.  Lets hope that RISC-V will
get some traction but risc on big endian anything is an endangered
species rarely ever seen in the wild anymore.


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