isc and other hosts connecting to my NS

Scott Haneda talklists at newgeo.com
Tue Oct 7 07:02:53 UTC 2008


Hello, I brought online a new NS, one in which the IP has not been  
used before, at least, not for a NS.  Maybe, many years ago, it was  
used as a http server.

I see a few queries come into my named logs that are clearly  
vulnerability scans, which while I do not like them, at least I  
understand why they are there.

Curious are below:
06-Oct-2008 09:09:27.942 queries: info: client 149.20.56.10#20053:  
query: www.orkut.co.in IN ANY -
06-Oct-2008 09:01:01.025 queries: info: client 149.20.56.10#20053:  
query: www.capitalone.com IN ANY

dig result
56.20.149.in-addr.arpa.	3600	IN	SOA	ns-int.isc.org.  
hostmaster.isc.org. 2008100500 7200 3600 604800 3600

Why does isc.org query my server?  It is a non recursive server, and  
only does lookups for my local machines, and of course, authoritative  
lookups for the few domains I am hasting.  I allow recursion on one  
IP, mine at home on a comcast connection.

There are others, not isc.org based, but most of them are, calling out  
myspace, facebook, and perhaps the most frightening one was  
cakefarts.com (NSFW)

Any help understanding what is going on would be most appreciated,  
thanks.
--
Scott



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