> On 7/01/2015, at 10:07 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> I am seeing a lot of them (9,997) with Transaction ID of 0x04d2. This seems 
>> to be something odd (but again I still need to learn a lot more about the 
>> decisions implementations make with their queries) but it gives me a feeling 
>> of a hard coded request.
> ...
>> I believe this may be a hard coded query from TP Link routers (only 
>> supposition at this point) but it seems logical. We use mostly TP Link 
>> routers around the network and behind the 321 query IP Address is a cluster 
>> of them and a hand check of the addresses in the list indicates they are TP 
>> Link devices as well. I will try set our reference router up in the lab and 
>> run a test against it to confirm.
> 
> Hard coded query ID indeed - 0x04d2 = 1234 :-)

I need to get better with my hexadecimal math / counting

> 
> Seeing quite a bit of it here too, interspersed with queries for
> www.tp-link.com with the same query ID - seems to support your theory.

I will hit up my Supplier to ask for a reply from TP-Link for why they do this. 
Seems like an unnecessary frequency of query ~30 seconds. Its not an issue for 
us because we are so small, but for someone like you, if you host for all the 
prefixes then it could be significant.

> 
> Steinar Haug, AS 2116

thanks for the corroboration.

> 
> 

Alexander Neilson AS132304 AS45831
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