[nsp-sec] DNS poisoning activity in the wild

[Florian Weimer]

* Leo Bicknell:

> Unfortunately doxdns5.com seem to be having issues this morning,
> doxpara.com is the same folks.  I'm poking people about that not
> working.

It's running some sort of probing before it returns a response.  The
resulting delay seems to be quite intentional.

> So, while I have no particular problem with you guys letting your
> security folks know ISC is hosting some white hat scanners I might
> encourage the more generic solution of make sure they look at rDNS,
> legitimate scanners go out of their way to explain their actions.

Sadly, this is not true.

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