[External] strange queries incrementing letter by letter

[Kevin A. McGrail]

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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