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    Senior Member bAgZ's Avatar
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    Possible attack? Funny DNS requests

    Hi there i am wondering if anyone can help me out. I have a Linux server hosting about 70 domains. Lately i have been noticing in my logs /var/log/messages following requests

    Feb 10 02:43:42 gipsy named[572]: lame server resolving '83.52.225.82.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org' (in 'ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org'?): 127.0.0.1#53
    Feb 10 02:43:55 gipsy named[572]: lame server resolving '53.16.22.216.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org' (in 'ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org'?): 127.0.0.1#53

    Sometimes its up to three a second. Searched on google for similar behavior and found nothing. Has anyone seen this before? Could it be that my server is blacklisted? Or could it be some kind of hack?

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    Try here...

    http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&cl...G=Search&meta=
    Google Search: .ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org' (in 'ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org'?): 127.0.0.1#53

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    Less obscure

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    Senior Member bAgZ's Avatar
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    Fair enough but how do i stop it? I did visit thei website before and it still does not explain why is this happening? Any ides?

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    Hellp,

    check the bind administration manual on lame servers. The can be disabled.

    Or you can use the following as an example:

    logging {
    category "lame-servers" { "null"; };
    channel null {
    null;
    severity warning;
    };
    };

    The part that you want is the category line.

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