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Re: Question for DNS pros
From: "Jason Coombs PivX Solutions" <jcoombs () PivX com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:31:14 +0000 GMT
Interesting discussion. There should be more DNS validation performed in the real world. We know what we're putting into DNS with respect to the domains we control, but the only time we find out about bad responses coming out at network endpoints is when we see the bad data ourselves or end users have problems. A MITM who poisons or hijacks DNS is going to ensure that the end user doesn't have problems that would cause them to complain to tech support or a webmaster, which makes it even more important to proactively detect DNS tampering. I wrote a couple articles on this subject not long ago. See: Forensic Data Validation and Integrity Logging http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9207/win1069286014914/ Sincerely, Jason Coombs Jcoombs () PivX com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:11:10 To:full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Question for DNS pros --On Friday, July 23, 2004 09:50:44 PM +0200 Oliver () greyhat de wrote:
hm... you could also try reverse lookups for all existing ip-adresses in the world :)
Well, no, because that wouldn't solve the problem. A host on our network is being queried quite regularly on udp/53 by other hosts. A review of the packets reveals that these other hosts believe that our host is a dns server. (AAMOF the IP address isn't even in use at the present time.) Now, if you do a reverse lookup for that IP, *our* DNS servers, which are authoritative for our network will tell you what the hostname is. But that isn't what I want to know. Obviously, a simple dig -x IP will tell me that. What I want to know is *why* do these "foreign" hosts think an IP on my network is serving DNS when there's not even a host at that address. I can think of two possibilities: 1) At some time in the past, a host *was* serving DNS at that address and some "foreign" hosts have cached the address. 2) Someone somewhere has registered a domain and used our IP address for one of their "nameservers" in the registration. (If anyone can think of other explanations, please let me know.) Now how is a reverse lookup going to help you with that? It would be trivial to write a perl script that did reverse lookups for every IP on the Internet and wrote the responses to a comma delimited file, but the resulting file would be useless to solve the problem that I'm trying to solve. And for those who were thinking "just do a tcpdump", here's what *that* looks like - no domain info there - 17:01:44.646943 x.x.x.x.17388 > xxxxxx.utdallas.edu.domain: 48072 NS? . (17) 17:01:45.386919 x.x.x.x.17388 > xxxxxx.utdallas.edu.domain: 48073 NS? . (17) 17:01:46.153402 x.x.x.x.17388 > xxxxxx.utdallas.edu.domain: 48074 NS? . (17) 17:01:47.657898 x.x.x.x.17388 > xxxxxx.utdallas.edu.domain: 1084 PTR? 63.37.110.129.in-addr.arpa. (44) 17:01:48.399150 x.x.x.x.17388 > xxxxxx.utdallas.edu.domain: 1085 PTR? 63.37.110.129.in-addr.arpa. (44) 17:01:49.144398 x.x.x.x.17388 > xxxxxx.utdallas.edu.domain: 1086 PTR? 63.37.110.129.in-addr.arpa. (44) The best suggestion yet has been to set up a name server at that address with verbose logging. That's probably what I will do next week. Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: Question for DNS pros Nils Ketelsen (Jul 25)
- FW: Question for DNS pros Suzi and Harold VanPatten (Jul 25)
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- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Paul Rolland (Jul 25)
- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Paul Schmehl (Jul 25)
- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Frank Knobbe (Jul 25)
- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Paul Schmehl (Jul 25)
- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Paul Rolland (Jul 26)
- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Paul Schmehl (Jul 26)
- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Paul Rolland (Jul 27)
- Re: FW: Question for DNS pros Paul Schmehl (Jul 24)