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Re: random dns queries with random sources

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Perreault)
Wed Feb 19 11:33:33 2014

Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:32:49 -0500
From: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CD3825FE-5EF1-4AE7-A48F-B192E5E9ACD4@arbor.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Le 2014-02-19 11:28, Dobbins, Roland a écrit :
>> I am late to this train, but it appears no one else has brought this up.  It is a DNS tunneling setup, not an attack. 
> 
> This makes a lot of sense - good insight, will look into this further!

I use this for free wi-fi in airports and such:

http://code.kryo.se/iodine/

If the wi-fi is configured to use an open resolver, we end up with the
situation you describe.

Simon
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