RE: DNS Help/ SID 1948

["Joesph Bowling" <joeybowling () hotmail com>]

Yes they do.

Anything over 512K  DNS will use TCP.


> From: Demetri Mouratis <dmourati () cm math uiuc edu>
> To: "Vanish Pattni (DSL AK)" <VanishP () datacom co nz>
> CC: "'Everist, Benjamin S. (NASWI)'" 
> <EveristB () naswi navy mil>,<snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> Subject: RE: [Snort-users] DNS Help/ SID 1948
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:39:06 -0500 (CDT)
>
> Uhh,
>
> Don't DNS zone transfers use TCP?
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Vanish Pattni (DSL AK) wrote:
>
> > we get a few of these everyday. However, at first we checked the dns 
> server
> > logs to see if a zone transfer had indeed happened but that was not the
> > case. Finally we settled down to the fact that udp is connectionless and 
> the
> > packets could easily be spoofed.
> >
> > TCP zone transfers have to come from a valid ip address and that is what 
> you
> > really have to look out for. Check your DNS server logs for any 
> uncertainty.
> >
> > cheers
> > Vanish
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Everist, Benjamin S. (NASWI) [mailto:EveristB () naswi navy mil]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 6:45 AM
> > To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: [Snort-users] DNS Help/ SID 1948
> >
> >
> >
> > Is the alert below really a DNS Zone transfer?  If not, what is it?
> >
> > 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > #(1 - 324871) [2003-05-06 09:15:04] [arachNIDS/212] [cve/CAN-1999-0532]
> > [icat/CAN-1999-0532] [snort/1948]  DNS zone transfer UDP
> >
> > IPv4: 207.115.64.2 -> my.home.net
> >       hlen=5 TOS=0 dlen=170 ID=0 flags=0 offset=0 TTL=47 chksum=51810
> > UDP:  port=53 -> dport: 53 len=150
> > Payload:  length = 142
> >
> > 000 : 54 50 80 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 03 03 31 31 36   TP...........116
> > 010 : 06 31 31 32 2F 32 38 03 31 33 35 02 31 38 02 31   .112/28.135.18.1
> > 020 : 32 07 69 6E 2D 61 64 64 72 04 61 72 70 61 00 00   2.in-addr.arpa..
> > 030 : 0C 00 01 C0 10 00 02 00 01 **00 00 FC** DB 00 12 03   
> ................
> >
> > 040 : 6E 73 32 08 69 73 6F 6D 65 64 69 61 03 63 6F 6D   ns2.isomedia.com
> > 050 : 00 C0 10 00 02 00 01 **00 00 FC** DB 00 06 03 6E 73   
> ..............ns
> >
> > 060 : 31 C0 43 C0 5D 00 01 00 01 00 00 2A 30 00 04 CF   1.C.]......*0...
> > 070 : 73 40 02 C0 3F 00 01 00 01 00 00 2A 30 00 04 CF   s@..?......*0...
> > 080 : 73 40 03 00 00 29 10 00 00 00 80 00 00 00         s@...)........
> >
> > and here's the sig that triggered it:
> >
> > alert udp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET 53 (msg:"DNS zone transfer 
> UDP";
> > content: "|00 00 FC|"; offset:14; reference:cve,CAN-1999-0532;
> > reference:arachnids,212; classtype:attempted-recon; sid:1948; rev:1;)
> >
> > Your thoughts are appreciated...
> >
> > v/r,
> >
> > Benjamin Everist
> >
> >
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Demetri Mouratis
> dmourati () linfactory com
>
>
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