Re: UDP scan from DNS server?

From: Chris Brenton (chrisat_private)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 19:43:50 PDT

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    Michael Clark wrote:
    > 
    > Snort grabbed the following traces last night. The source is my ISP's DNS
    > server. Any ideas?
    > 
    > May 28 21:42:40 111.222.333.444:53 -> 192.168.1.1:61068 UDP
    > May 28 21:42:43 111.222.333.444:53 -> 192.168.1.1:61069 UDP
    > May 28 21:42:43 111.222.333.444:53 -> 192.168.1.1:61070 UDP
    
    I see this from time to time. _Usually_ the culprit is the target system
    thinks it already received a reply or timed-out the connection. The DNS
    server is still trying to reply and starts hitting incremental ports
    (remember DNS has no flags to work with so gracefully killing a UDP
    connection can get messy). Usually the attempt dies after and hour or so
    but it depends on the platform the DNS server is using. I've seen HP
    systems continue to retry for months. :)
    
    Best way to know for sure is to check your outbound logs and see if
    192.168.1.1 initiated a query just before this pattern started.
    
    HTH,
    Chris 
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