huge count of DNS deny hits

babu dheen babudheen at yahoo.co.in
Wed Jan 11 05:11:47 UTC 2012


Hi,
 
I enabled the logs in DNS server and i found  below lines from this client continiously..
 
1/10/2012 9:14:30 AM 0FDC PACKET  0000000005B489B0 UDP Snd <Client IP>    1f23   Q [0005 A D   NOERROR] TXT    (7)version(4)bind(0)
1/10/2012 9:14:30 AM 0FDC PACKET  0000000007342360 UDP Rcv <Client IP>   c63c   Q [0005 A D   NOERROR] TXT    (7)version(4)bind(0)
1/10/2012 9:14:30 AM 0FDC PACKET  0000000007342360 UDP Snd <Client IP>     c63c   Q [0005 A D   NOERROR] TXT    (7)version(4)bind(0)
1/10/2012 9:14:30 AM 0FDC PACKET  0000000004D728F0 UDP Rcv <Client IP>   a96a   Q [0005 A D   NOERROR] TXT    (7)version(4)bind(0)
 
Is it something to do with Malticast DNS. Can you give me more details about Multicast DNS 
 
Regards
Papdheen M

--- On Mon, 9/1/12, Fajar A. Nugraha <work at fajar.net> wrote:


From: Fajar A. Nugraha <work at fajar.net>
Subject: Re: huge count of DNS deny hits
To: "babu dheen" <babudheen at yahoo.co.in>
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Date: Monday, 9 January, 2012, 12:16 PM


On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:37 PM, babu dheen <babudheen at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Unfortunately, i have not enabled logs in my internal DNS server.

You just dismissed the only reliable source of information

>
> Any idea ..

Without logs, you only have assumptions. The best assumption at this
point is that the client probably has a virus/malware, whose activity
(one of them anyway) is to look for vulnerable DNS servers.

-- 
Fajar
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