Malicious DNS request?

Thu May 12 08:41:12 UTC 2005

Joe Shen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In past days I noticed the nxdomain statistics in
> named.stats keeps increasing.( I run it every 5 min)
> 
> By tcpdump, it's found a remote computer keep asking
> address for record like
> 999d38e693b9e6293b450.0existence.com,
> 60d38e693b9e6293b450.0be6c1xfa.net. 
> 
> is that a virus affacted computer? 
> 
> How could such request be filtered or minimize its
> affaction on DNS server?

Either this is a DDoS (woohoo!! I used the forbidden word) or you are
seeing a botnet trying to connect and putting in some smoke-screen while
at it to try and poison dns-top.

I'd suggest dropping requests for domains you don't hold.

	Gadi.