OT:Please excuse the noise
Kevin Oberman
oberman at es.net
Tue Aug 19 04:34:08 UTC 2008
> From: "Joe Blanchard" <joe at sumless.net>
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:50:08 -0400
>
>
> I'm dealing with Hughsnet and have observed the following issue/
>
> SOA is me for testing 72.169.156.122
>
> Upstream router seems to be a public IP
> Number: 15942
> Date: 18Aug2008
> Time: 23:03:21
> Product: FireWall-1
> Interface: eth0
> Origin: rockgate (192.168.1.1)
> Type: Log
> Action: Accept
> Protocol: udp
> Service: 2016
> Source: upstream_router (72.169.156.121)
> Destination: Firewall_external (72.169.156.122)
> Rule: 10
> Source Port: domain-udp (53)
>
>
> Problem is that target port is not 53, in otherwords asking for a DNS
> response on an odd port while sourcing port 53.
> Is this normal, am I missing something that a bigger ISP knows? This would
> be Hughesnet. so I should be concerned? I have a ticket opened with them,
> #15048812 but am getting the run around with them.
> I understand that the normal recourse is to "Reboot the modem" but in this
> case I think it's a bit more than that.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance,
Are they asking for a DNS or is this a reply?
Replies are from 53 to an ephemeral destination. If your firewall is set
up correctly and not losing state too quickly for DNS responses, this may
be backscatter. I see a bit of this from time to time and dark space
monitoring systems see a lot of it. With the cache poisoning attacks,
I'd expect to see more t it.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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