full-disclosure - FW: Question for DNS pros

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

--On Monday, July 26, 2004 08:58:48 AM +0200 Paul Rolland <rol@...be.net> 
wrote:

>
> Seems to be a query for the NS for the "." (root) zone.

Well, you're correct about that.

> The machine sending the queries is probably configured to use
> your server as a complete DNS resolver and transfer all its queries
> to your server.
>
Umm...I don't *have* a server at that address.  In fact, there is no live 
host at all at that address.  *That*, after all, is the entire point of 
this thread.

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