> Would I be doing a bad thing by using fail2ban to block these IPs?

That’s the question that only you can answer.  The IP addresses are
not attacker’s but victim’s and you would be punishing those networks
by blocking access from them to your network.

Do you absolutely know that these IP addresses doesn’t need access
to your DNS?  If yes, then go ahead.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
ond...@isc.org

> On 15. 12. 2021, at 12:51, Danilo Godec via bind-users 
> <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm noticing some unusual activity where 48 external IPs generated over
> 2M queries that have all been denied (just today):
> 
> 15-Dec-2021 00:01:42.023 security: info: client @0x7f96180b3fe0
> 194.48.217.14#59698 (.): view outside: query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
> 15-Dec-2021 00:01:42.023 security: info: client @0x7f9618019e20
> 194.48.217.14#59698 (.): view outside: query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
> 15-Dec-2021 00:01:42.023 security: info: client @0x7f9618019e20
> 194.48.217.14#59698 (.): view outside: query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
> 15-Dec-2021 00:01:42.023 security: info: client @0x7f9618019e20
> 194.48.217.14#59698 (.): view outside: query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
> 15-Dec-2021 00:01:42.123 security: info: client @0x7f9618019e20
> 45.145.227.33#11092 (.): view outside: query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
> 15-Dec-2021 00:01:42.127 security: info: client @0x7f96180b3fe0
> 45.145.227.33#11092 (.): view outside: query (cache) './ANY/IN' denied
> 
> 
> I'm guessing this is some sort of an reflection attack attempt, but I
> don't quite understand if these are the perpetrators or victims?
> 
> Would I be doing a bad thing by using fail2ban to block these IPs?
> 
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>      Danilo
> 
> 
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