On one of my servers I'm seeing numerous log entries of the following type:

Oct 29 07:40:14 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: fema.net SOA: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:15 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: 6o978dethbt4s0cg8sfb1jsts4ssimsc.fema.net NSEC3: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:15 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: jkkfnbb4eep0h0ltjf1cisf4eo2lgnm5.fema.net NSEC3: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:15 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: fema.net SOA: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:15 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: 6o978dethbt4s0cg8sfb1jsts4ssimsc.fema.net NSEC3: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:15 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: jkkfnbb4eep0h0ltjf1cisf4eo2lgnm5.fema.net NSEC3: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:15 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: fema.net SOA: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:20 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: fema.net SOA: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:20 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: 6o978dethbt4s0cg8sfb1jsts4ssimsc.fema.net NSEC3: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:20 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: fema.net SOA: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY) Oct 29 07:40:20 mx2 named[14747]: validating @0x7f3378be05b0: 6o978dethbt4s0cg8sfb1jsts4ssimsc.fema.net NSEC3: bad cache hit (fema.net/DNSKEY)

I'm guessing this is some kind of brute force attack on BIND trying to take advantage of a broken dnssec configuration for fema.net? The problem is that the syslog is filled with these messages.

Antonio Querubin
e-mail:  t...@lavanauts.org
xmpp:  antonioqueru...@gmail.com
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