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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:42:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        dlacroix@cowpie.acm.vt.edu (David La Croix)
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bind: unapproved query (version.bind) Script kiddies?
Message-ID:  <200101310842.AAA17048@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <200101302245.RAA12443@cowpie.acm.vt.edu> from David La Croix at "Jan 30, 2001 04:45:04 pm"

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Given I just saw 208.44.147.11 pile up in my logfiles I can say we have
an active script kiddy.  He is seaching for broken named's and hitting
large areas of ip space (this is just one burst in my logs:)

/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:46 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3120 X.X.X.0:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:46 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 10532 Accept TCP 208.44.147.11:3124 X.X.X.4:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:48 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3501 X.X.X.127:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:48 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3584 X.X.X.159:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:48 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3585 X.X.X.160:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:49 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3717 X.X.X.191:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:49 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3718 X.X.X.192:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:49 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3901 X.X.X.223:53 in via ng0
/var/log/security.0.gz:Jan 30 07:45:49 br1 /kernel: ipfw: 650 Deny TCP 208.44.147.11:3902 X.X.X.224:53 in via ng0

> I just noticed the following in my logfiles: (/var/log/messages)
> 
> it was running Bind 8.2.2-
> 
> Jan 26 22:37:43 mildred named[41908]: unapproved query from [208.44.147.11].1584
>  for "version.bind"
> [repeat 23 more times from the same IP]
> 
> Jan 27 01:44:42 mildred named[41908]: unapproved query from [208.139.163.15].273
> 4 for "version.bind"
> [repeat 32 more times from the same IP]
> 
> Could this be script kiddie activity?  This was before I upgraded to 8.2.3, 
> and before the CERT alert came out.
> 
> What I don't get is why the unapproved query repeated so many times, within
> (according to the timestamp) 3 seconds on both occasions.
> 
> I will note:  this activity goes back through about November of 2000, seemingly from different IP addresses.
> 
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