Tag: Packet capture
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More fun with DNS packet captures
Following my last post on DNS query port usage, here are some more interesting DNS graphs. The following graphs are based on a packet capture taken from the network interface of a recursive DNS server. This DNS server is one of the primary recursive DNS servers for a small Internet service provider. The capture includes…
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DNS query UDP source port graphs
Recently Dan Kaminsky announced a new DNS vulnerability. This isn’t a vulnerability in a particular DNS implementation but a problem with the DNS protocol itself. You can find information from CERT here. The exact details of the vulnerability were kept quiet even after DNS software vendors simultaneouslly released patches to mitigate the problem. One of…