[Bro] Lying about DNS yields interesting bro entries

James Lay jlay at slave-tothe-box.net
Mon Feb 1 15:31:39 PST 2016


Curious.  I'll show the data first:

2016-02-01T08:48:12-0700  x.x.x.x    420     65.113.230.90   53      udp 
     dns     -       -       -       SHR     T      F0       d       0    
    0       1       73      (empty)
2016-02-01T08:48:12-0700  x.x.x.x    420     65.113.230.90   53      udp 
     21365   -       -       -       -       -      2SERVFAIL        F    
    F       F       F       0       -       -       T
2016-02-01T08:48:12-0700  x.x.x.x    420     65.113.230.90   53      
dns_unmatched_reply     -       F       bro


Packet capture listening to udp port 420 (no other match for 
65.113.230.90):
2016-02-01 08:48:12.311086633 65.113.230.90 -> x.x.x.x DNS 89 Standard 
query response 0x5375 Server failure A otqxwnenalwb.www.1818my[.]com < 
[] added by me


Syslog:
Feb  1 08:48:12 kernel: [157335.232732] IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= 
SRC=65.113.230.90 DST=x.x.x.x LEN=73 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=249 ID=23786 
PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=420 LEN=53

I guess my question is, is this desired behavior?  I see the 
dns_unmatched_reply, but it seems the first two entries never 
happened...so should they be there?  Thanks...more of a curious question 
more than anything else.

James


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