Re: [CentOS] [OT] DNS queries issue

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Foster
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > 1.8GB's of these seems incredibly excessive... I wonder if they're not > legitimate DNS requests trying to get to you because you're the SOA for > some domain... > I've seen this sort of behavior from broken resolvers trying to follow a fully-lame delegation. If you susp

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DNS queries issue

2007-10-04 Thread Ray Van Dolson
> I show millions of lines like: > Oct 4 11:49:30 dns1 named[878]: client 68.13.16.20#53535: query (cache) > denied > > If I trim out those and the last message repeated lines, I go from a > messages log of 1.8GB to 1.3MB but 2 weeks earlier my messages log for > the week was only 339M. > > Goog

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DNS queries issue

2007-10-04 Thread gjgowey
I'm just spit balling, but this doesn't sound like good normal behavior. Off handedly it sounds like a DNS poison or transfer attempt. I'm not entirely certain a centos mailing list is a good venue for this question. I would try asking in SecurityFocus. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wirele