[External] strange queries incrementing letter by letter

[Mark Andrews]

Some piece of software trying to speed up resolution by resolving names as you type.

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Mark Andrews

> On 8 May 2021, at 04:21, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgrail at pccc.com> wrote:
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> Weird.
> 
> Thoughts are:
> 
> Bad software?  What we call ratware.  
> 
> UDP/TCP Firewall issues?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> KAM
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>> On 5/7/2021 1:32 PM, Kevin Kretz wrote:
>> I see occasional series of queries like this, from within my network and among disparate types of host (linux, windows):
>> 
>> If there's a host called 
>> 
>> hostname.mynet.com
>> 
>> I'll see a sequence of queries like
>> 
>> hostname.m
>> hostname.my
>> hostname.myn
>> hostname.myne
>> hostname.mynet
>> hostname.mynet.c
>> hostname.mynet.co
>> hostname.mynet.com
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me what this is?
>> 
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> Kevin
>> 
>> 
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