Re: Bad Referrals?

["Derek Kwan [321844]" <Derek () KWAN CA>]

But AFAIK nothing on my box is try to do a reverse look up on that IP....
Hummmm..... Maybe something that I don't know is happening on my box?

Derek

Chip McClure wrote:

> It's a poorly configured DNS server. They (the site in question) doesn't
> have their reverse DNS set up correctly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Incidents Mailing List [mailto:INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf
> Of Derek Kwan
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:06 PM
> To: INCIDENTS () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Bad Referrals?
>
> Hello world,
>
>  Lately I have notice lots of bad referrals messages in my log file and
> when Itake a closer look, I have a bunch of these..
>
> Jan 14 16:55:22 KWAN named[82]: bad referral (188.207.IN-ADDR.ARPA !<
> 7.188.207.in-addr.arpa)
>
>  Any ideas what is happening?
>
>  Note: I have nothing to deal with 207.188.* network.. and I don't know
> what causes these messages... Am I being attack?
>
> Derek