Marc - The fastest way to get their attention is to send them an invoice for DNS hosting along with a copy of the whois output :)
Regards, David Gregg dgSoft Internet Services +1.949.584-1514 --- mxGuard for IMail Server based spam and virus protection for under $100 Request a free trial at http://www.mxGuard.com --- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc A. Funaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "iMail List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 6:25 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] [OT] domain name owner sets his name's nameservers to ours; we're not SOA for name We've discovered two or three domain names that are configured to have OUR name servers as the SOA, but we don't know these people at all. The three we know about are: aim-leads.com aimmailinglists.com brickshirthouse.com The only reason we discovered these is because of the errors in our DNS log that contain these names: "The DNS server encountered a packet addressed to itself on IP address 69.59.142.6. The packet is for the DNS name "aim-leads.com.". The packet will be discarded. This condition usually indicates a configuration error." [snip] My understanding is, this was most likely an attempt to hijack our DNS servers using cache corruption techniques -- techniques for which I believe we are protected and therefore not vulnerable. These are obviously some sort of marketing names, for sales and/or email lists. My two questions are: 1. Do any of you have tests that you run on your DNS servers to verify they are not vulnerable to cache corruption? If there are tests I can run to be sure we're okay, I'd love to hear about them. We're running MS-DNS, with all service packs/patches applied, and proper settings in the DNS server. >From my tests using NSLOOKUP, our servers don't respond in any way to those names. 2. Is there any course of action I can pursue to get these names to not point traffic to our name servers for their zone information, since we'll never have their zone info? Thanks in advance for any input you offer. This is off-topic from the standard iMail questions, so please feel free to contact me off-list. Marc To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
