> On 26 Jan 2016, at 01:12, TorOp AnonymizedDotIo1 <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Over the weekend I started having those kind of error popping on my log at a 
> very high rate (a few per seconds):
> 
> Jan 25 09:00:00.000 [warn] eventdns: Address mismatch on received DNS packet. 
>  Apparent source was xxx.237.192.xxx:61083
> 
> Apparent source is not my IP and is different at every error message. I 
> restarted my relay and I have stopped happening. I am running my own local 
> unbound DNS server.
> 
> Is it some kind of attack or simply an error that happened over the weekend? 
> I have never seen it before.

This error is logged when Tor sends a DNS query to an address, but gets a reply 
back from a different address.

This could be an attack, or a misconfigured DNS server, or simply a multihomed 
DNS server.

Tim

Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)

teor2345 at gmail dot com
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teor at blah dot im
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