Re: Strange DNS queries

Jason Lewis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am totally amazed at the number of email bounces I received from my 
single post to the list.  I hardly post to large mailing lists anymore 
because I spend the next week deleting bounces.

A lot of lists have moved to trolling for bounces, is anyone doing that 
for this list?

Jason Lewis wrote:
> This link has info.
> 
> http://deluvian.doxpara.com/
> 
> 
> Alexander Klimov wrote:
> 
>> We see some random DNS queries: 209.200.168.66 routinely asks us about
>>
>> license.sunncomm2.com
>> connected.sonymusic.com
>> updates.xcp-aurora.com
>> r1x.myz.info
>> a.botdot.tk
>> brandonsisco.com
>> <some-base64-like-here>.deluvian.doxpara.com
>> <some-base64-like-here>.<digits-here>.maddns.net
>> etc.
>>
>> And it looks like we are not the only target:
>> <http://www.google.com/search?q=%22209.200.168.66%22>
>>
>> There are only few requests per hour, but this is a steady stream
>> since the beginning of the month (plus there was some portscan with
>> even slower rate).  We can easily block them by firewall, but it is
>> interesting what they actually try to acheive?
>>
>> I know about sonymusic rootkit search, but what about the other sites?
>>
>
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