Re: Win2k Machine contacting Root Server???
Jeff Rosowski <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:26:00 -0800 (PST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.incidents |
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> I recently ran "netstat" on my personal laptop (running Win2k) and was > shocked to see that it had been making TCP connections to the root servers > (to their domain port). I know that some DNS queries are performed using TCP, > but I find it somewhat disturbing that the root servers were involved. > > I did a little googling and found a few remarks that Win2k machines sometimes > do this... But mine has the lastest updates.... We've seen it when they couldn't reverse lookup their address.