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Re: Promosis? Who are these guys?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Apr 20 05:11:41 2005

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:11:10 +0200
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a05042000081e5e6f49@mail.gmail.com> (Suresh
	Ramasubramanian's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:38:18 +0530")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


* Suresh Ramasubramanian:

> Any idea?

SANS would call this a DNS cache poisoning attack.  8-) It seems that
ns*.dnsauthority.com uses the shortcut I mentioned earlier.

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @ns4.dnsauthority.com de ns
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31561
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;de.                            IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
de.                     14400   IN      NS      ns4.dnsauthority.com.
de.                     14400   IN      NS      ns5.dnsauthority.com.

;; Query time: 120 msec
;; SERVER: 66.151.179.138#53(ns4.dnsauthority.com)
;; WHEN: Wed Apr 20 11:08:47 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 72

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @ns4.dnsauthority.com enyo.de
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4729
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;enyo.de.                       IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
enyo.de.                14400   IN      A       66.151.179.147

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
de.                     14400   IN      NS      ns4.dnsauthority.com.
de.                     14400   IN      NS      ns5.dnsauthority.com.

;; Query time: 115 msec
;; SERVER: 66.151.179.138#53(ns4.dnsauthority.com)
;; WHEN: Wed Apr 20 11:10:50 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 93

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