Interesting BIND error
Crist Clark
crist.clark at globalstar.com
Thu Feb 12 22:59:40 UTC 2004
Brian Bruns wrote:
>
> On Thu, February 12, 2004 4:52 pm, Brian Wallingford said:
>
>>We've been seeing the following on all of our (9.2.1) authoritative
>>nameservers since approximately 10am today. Googling has turned up
>>nothing; I'm currently trying to glean some useful netflow data. Just
>>wondering if this is local, or if others have suddenly seen the same.
>>
>>Seems harmless enough, but the logging is eating a disproportionate amount
>>of cpu.
>>
>>
>>Feb 12 16:25:07 ns1 named[3150]: internal_send: 244.254.254.254#53:
>>Invalid argument
>
>
>
> Its possible that someone is spoofing UDP packets to your nameserver from
> that IP range (which is IANA reserved space).
That's the old Class E space. Definately not routed over the Internet.
> It looks like BIND is
> refusing to send to that address, and thus the error.
Or the OS is.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark at globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
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