Re: strange DNS query

Hans Mayer via mod-security-users <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Nov 2024 18:28:11 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-security.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--===============7092385882738001075==
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="------------nAUDizLDK3zlEFiK0xsWStEo"
Content-Language: de-DE, en-GB

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------nAUDizLDK3zlEFiK0xsWStEo
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


Hi Robert, Hi Ervin,

many thanks for your information.
I don't have any issues with statistics. But as it is not used any more 
I switched off as recommended.

Kind regards
Hans

-- 


On 02.11.24 10:29, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> as Robert explained, this is because ModSecurity has a feature (see 
> the blogpost).
>
> Please note that there is an intention that we would like to stop 
> using this variable. It's been set to "Off" for a while, see 
> https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3085.
>
> You need to update this in your config file (especially since 
> TrustWave transferred the project to OWASP these DNS queries don't 
> work at all).
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> a.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 9:37 PM Hans Mayer via mod-security-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>     Dear All,
>
>     I am using Apache/2.4.62 on Debian with the modsecurity-crs package
>     which is Producer ModSecurity for Apache/2.9.7 and Rule Set
>     OWASP_CRS/4.9.0-dev
>
>     Each time I restart Apache I find a strange log entry in BINDs
>     query log.
>     The system is looking for a name
>     GIXDSLRXFRAXAYLDNBSSYMJOG4XDELZR.FY3S4MRMGEYC4NBSF4WEY5LBEA2S4MJM.GIXDSLRRGQWGGMY.1730491019.status.modsecurity.org
>     <http://GIXDSLRXFRAXAYLDNBSSYMJOG4XDELZR.FY3S4MRMGEYC4NBSF4WEY5LBEA2S4MJM.GIXDSLRRGQWGGMY.1730491019.status.modsecurity.org>
>     as A resource record which does not exists.
>     The query is almost the same except the number ( 1730491019 ) wich is
>     the Unix time.
>     Also this string GIXDSLRRGQWGGMY is different on different servers.
>
>     Any idea for what this should be useful ? Does it make sense ?
>     Which part is actually doing this ?
>
>     Kind regards
>     Hans
>
>     -- 
>
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     mod-security-users mailing list
>     [email protected]
>     https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mod-security-users
>     Commercial ModSecurity Rules and Support from Trustwave's SpiderLabs:
>     http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/rules/
>     http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/support/
>
--------------nAUDizLDK3zlEFiK0xsWStEo
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>Hi Robert, Hi Ervin, <br>
    </p>
    <p>many thanks for your information. <br>
      I don't have any issues with statistics. But as it is not used any
      more I switched off as recommended. <br>
    </p>
    <p>Kind regards <br>
      Hans <br>
    </p>
    <p>-- <br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02.11.24 10:29, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:CAJ2uXbdRH1u+LTYtr3g7f=SOLiC1M=DvwcEvjtNo3144+2iQYA@mail.gmail.com">
      <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
      <div dir="ltr">
        <div>Hi Hans,</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>as Robert explained, this is because ModSecurity has a
          feature (see the blogpost).</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Please note that there is an intention that we would like
          to stop using this variable. It's been set to "Off" for a
          while, see <a
href="https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3085"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3085</a>.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>You need to update this in your config file (especially
          since TrustWave transferred the project to OWASP these DNS
          queries don't work at all).</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Thanks,</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>a.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
      </div>
      <br>
      <div class="gmail_quote">
        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 9:37 PM
          Hans Mayer via mod-security-users &lt;<a
            href="mailto:[email protected]"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>&gt;
          wrote:<br>
        </div>
        <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
          Dear All,<br>
          <br>
          I am using Apache/2.4.62 on Debian with the modsecurity-crs
          package <br>
          which is Producer ModSecurity for Apache/2.9.7 and Rule Set  <br>
          OWASP_CRS/4.9.0-dev<br>
          <br>
          Each time I restart Apache I find a strange log entry in BINDs
          query log.<br>
          The system is looking for a name<br>
          <a
href="http://GIXDSLRXFRAXAYLDNBSSYMJOG4XDELZR.FY3S4MRMGEYC4NBSF4WEY5LBEA2S4MJM.GIXDSLRRGQWGGMY.1730491019.status.modsecurity.org"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">GIXDSLRXFRAXAYLDNBSSYMJOG4XDELZR.FY3S4MRMGEYC4NBSF4WEY5LBEA2S4MJM.GIXDSLRRGQWGGMY.1730491019.status.modsecurity.org</a><br>
          as A resource record which does not exists.<br>
          The query is almost the same except the number ( 1730491019 )
          wich is <br>
          the Unix time.<br>
          Also this string GIXDSLRRGQWGGMY is different on different
          servers.<br>
          <br>
          Any idea for what this should be useful ? Does it make sense ?<br>
          Which part is actually doing this ?<br>
          <br>
          Kind regards<br>
          Hans<br>
          <br>
          -- <br>
          <br>
          <br>
          <br>
          _______________________________________________<br>
          mod-security-users mailing list<br>
          <a href="mailto:[email protected]"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a><br>
          <a
href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mod-security-users"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mod-security-users</a><br>
          Commercial ModSecurity Rules and Support from Trustwave's
          SpiderLabs:<br>
          <a
            href="http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/rules/"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/rules/</a><br>
          <a
href="http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/support/"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/support/</a><br>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
  </body>
</html>

--------------nAUDizLDK3zlEFiK0xsWStEo--


--===============7092385882738001075==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline


--===============7092385882738001075==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

_______________________________________________
mod-security-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mod-security-users
Commercial ModSecurity Rules and Support from Trustwave's SpiderLabs:
http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/rules/
http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/commercial/support/

--===============7092385882738001075==--