> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:56:23 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: How to track DNS resolution sources
> CC: [email protected]
>
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 05:22:58PM +0100,
> Notify Me <[email protected]> wrote
> a message of 13 lines which said:
>
> > I hope I'm wording this correctly.
>
> Not really :-)
>
> > I had a incident at a client site where a DNS record was being
> > spoofed.
>
> How do you know? What steps did you use to assert this? Answers to
> these questions would help to understand your problem.
>
> > How does one track down the IP address that's returning the false
> > records ?
>
> If it's real DNS spoofing (which I doubt), the source IP address of
> the poisoner is forged, so it would not help.
>
> The main tool to use is dig. Let's assume the name that bothers you is
> foobar.example.com. Query your local resolver:
>
> dig A foobar.example.com
>
> Query an external resolver, here Google Public DNS:
>
> dig @8.8.4.4 A foobar.example.com
>
> Query the authoritative name servers of example.com. First, to find them:
>
> dig NS example.com
>
> Second, query them (replace the server name by the real one):
>
> dig @a.iana-servers.net. A foobar.example.com
I didn't understand how this will help him identify the poisoner.
What an IDS rule will do is check for responding authoritative query IDs for
DNS queries never made to that responder, but made for the authoritative server
identified as per above (direct NS inquiry).
If no IDS is present, BIND logging would allow for identification of
authoritative responses and query ID identification.
In summary whatever is answered authoritatively by a server other than the NS
ones tracked by "dig +trace foobar.examplecom" is the potential poisoner. But
if the poisoing is done from an spoofed IP address (spoofing the authoritative
IP), well good luck w/ that if the spoofed domain is not DNSSEC aware.
