Paul Mansfield wrote:
> whilst checking DNS issues recently at home I observed my firewall 
> blocking packets to UDP:53
> 
> the packets were coming from a small number of IP addresses - see 
> appended - many are within facebook's blocks (according to ARIN 
> whois).
> 
> I don't have any NS records which would cause anything to talk to my 
> home IP, so I find it very odd.

Is there any evidence whether these queries really are coming from
Facebook IP space, or could they be spoofed - for instance, do the
packets show source port and/or query IDs that are fixed or spread
across a range ?

There's also a lot of DNS reflection/amplification attacks going on
these days, but I'm having trouble figuring out how these could be
generated by such activity.

> has anyone else observed this, or can explain it?

You might also want to try asking this question over on the
<[email protected]> list.

Keith


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