full-disclosure - Question for DNS pros

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Question for DNS pros

--On Saturday, July 24, 2004 9:39 AM +0530 "ALD, [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ]" 
<aditya.deshmukh@...ine.gateway.technolabs.net> wrote:
> I can think of two possibilities:
> 1) At some time in the past, a host *was* serving DNS at that address and
> some "foreign" hosts have cached the address.

i think your isp should have this info

Umm..did you look at my address?  We own a class B.  We don't have an ISP.
>
> then his domain is toast anyway as there is not dns server so effectively
> his domain is offline,  this will be corrected soon if this is the case.
>
Not if the "other" DNS server is working.  You're required to register two 
nameservers; a primary and a secondary.  You only need one to answer 
queries.  If a guy registered a domain and used *his* box for the primary 
and just grabbed a random IP to register as a "secondary", why would he 
care of the secondary didn't work?
>
> 1. just block of port 53 / udp for that address at the firewall
> 2. run a dns server that replies to all the quries with localhost or
> 127.0.0.1 after you have found what is causing this 3. set the refresh
> time, TTL and other values to -1 this should solve most of the problems
> as the clients would simply stop querying
>
You're misunderstanding the problem.  The problem is, we want to make sure 
our IPs aren't being used by someone else, even inadvertantly.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu