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Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Apr 19 09:41:26 2002

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:03:51 EDT, Greg Maxwell <[email protected]>  said:

> Does anyone already have a SNORT signature to match on these updates to
> aid in tracking down which hosts behind a NAT are guilty for generating
> this garbage?

The problem is that the sites that are the big offenders are probably not
the sort of sites that would run Snort.

Now, think about it - one /32 popped of *30K* of these in 4 hours -
and a 'dig -x' shows it to apparently be a DSL line.  So we're seeing
2 or 3 DCHP events *PER SECOND* behind that NAT.  Either they've got
a bunch of machines doing the Reboot Shuffle and have bigger problems,
or they're big enough that 2-3 DHCP per second is reasonable (at which
point you have to wonder how they're THAT big, and depending on a DSL
line.. ;)

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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