Outgoing DNS requests

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon May 17 15:12:14 UTC 2004


In article <c8ahuc$1kcb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "chrisf" <usenetchris at ic-2000.com> wrote:

> I have a DNS server that is making a large number of outgoing requests to
> the same IP address.  I also see weird stuff in the logs which are shown
> below.  Our firewall is showing a extremely large number of outgoing
> requests to the DNS port on a specific IP, but that IP address does not show 
> up in any of our logs.  How can I go about pinpointing the problem? 

Turn on tracing in the DNS server, and look for trace messages referring 
to that IP.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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