Re: Unusual IN ANY DNS Traffic

2005-05-11 Thread Douglas E. Warner
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 03:57, Simon Waters wrote: Indeed moderns versions of BIND default to high ports for DNS queries as well unless configured otherwise. I think old versions of BIND and the odd firewall product were the main thing doing source port 53 queries. I was going to suggest

Unusual IN ANY DNS Traffic

2005-05-10 Thread Douglas E. Warner
Since about 03:00 UTC this morning I've been seeing a huge increase in IN ANY requests for msn.com.. While my name servers have not seen much, if any, IN ANY queries in the past, now I'm seeing ~ 50 queries/second. I'll include a tcpdump sample below. Actually, while I was writing this post

Re: Unusual IN ANY DNS Traffic

2005-05-10 Thread Douglas E. Warner
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 12:14, Duane Wessels wrote: One thing I've noticed that likes to generate ANY queries is Qmail... I guess I should've stated that these are almost all some DSL customers on our network using their assigned DNS servers, but this traffic is just completely out of normal;