Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-02 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 2 Nov 2023, at 20:25, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 04:09:24PM +1100, > Mark Andrews wrote > a message of 90 lines which said: > >> I also see QNAME minimisation in action as the QTYPE is NS. This >> could just be a open recursive servers using QNAME minimisat

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-02 Thread John McCormac
On 02/11/2023 05:15, Randy Bush wrote: ya, right, and at a whole bunch of other cctld servers from a network called domaincrawler-hosting It looks like a list based attempt to discover domain names registered in some small ccTLDs. The problem with some of the queries is that a few of the sec

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-02 Thread Randy Bush
> I might be reading this wrong, but I don't think the point Randy was > trying to make was 'NS queries are an attack', 'UDP packets are an > attack' or 'IP packets are an attack' . I base this on the list of > queries Randy decided to include as relevant to the thesis Randy was > trying to make, i

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 04:09:24PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote a message of 90 lines which said: > I also see QNAME minimisation in action as the QTYPE is NS. This > could just be a open recursive servers using QNAME minimisation. > With QNAME minimisation working correctly all parent zones sho

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-02 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 10:32, Mark Andrews wrote: > You missed the point I was trying to make. While I think that that source is > trying to enumerate some part of the namespace. NS queries by themselves > don’t indicate an attack. Others would probably see the series of NS queries > as a sig

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-02 Thread Mark Andrews
You missed the point I was trying to make. While I think that that source is trying to enumerate some part of the namespace. NS queries by themselves don’t indicate an attack. Others would probably see the series of NS queries as a signature of an attack when they are NOT. There needs to be m

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-01 Thread Randy Bush
ya, right, and at a whole bunch of other cctld servers from a network called domaincrawler-hosting shall we smoke another? /home/randy> sudo tcpdump -pni vtnet0 -c 500 port 53 and net 193.235.141 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on vtnet0, lin

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-01 Thread Mark Andrews
While I see evidence for the claim, 5 character left hand label and all non-existant. I also see QNAME minimisation in action as the QTYPE is NS. This could just be a open recursive servers using QNAME minimisation. With QNAME minimisation working correctly all parent zones should see is NS qu

Re: swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-11-01 Thread Amir Herzberg
Randy, thanks for sharing, I didn't know this is actually done. Any idea if they use something clever or just exhaustive search? thanks Amir -- Amir Herzberg Comcast professor of Security Innovations, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut Homepage: https://sites.google.com/s

swedish dns zone enumerator

2023-10-31 Thread Randy Bush
i have blocked a zone enumerator, though i guess they will be a whack-a-mole others have reported them as well /home/randy> sudo tcpdump -pni vtnet0 -c 10 port 53 and net 193.235.141 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on vtnet0, link-type EN10MB (