Re: DNS honeypots?

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jason Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone have any pointers to dns honeypots or maybe just BIND
> configurations that would allow logging of malicious queries without
> actually executing them?
>


Below is how I've got BIND set up in Debian Linux for a similar purpose.
It sends all the queries to a log file, and returns an A record (and MX)
of whatever value you'd like (I used RFC1918 space for this example).

Not sure it's perfect, but it works pretty well for my purposes.

Cheers,
--
Jason



root dir: /etc/bind

========
named.conf
========
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";

zone "." IN {
   type master;
   file "/etc/bind/db.wildcard";
};


========
named.conf.options
========
options {
   directory "/var/cache/bind";
   allow-transfer { none; };
   listen-on-v6 { any; };
};

logging {
   channel query_log {
      severity info;
      print-time yes;
      file "query.log" versions 5 size 50M;
   };
   category queries {
      query_log;
   };
};


========
db.wildcard
========
$TTL   604800
@   IN   SOA   localhost.  root.localhost. (
                        2009102201  ; serial
                               604800  ; refresh
                                 86400  ; retry
                             2419200  ; expire
                              604800) ; negative cache ttl

@              IN         NS        localhost.
*              IN          MX 10   mail.
*              IN            A        192.168.3.101