[dns-operations] Odd MX queries

Daniel Stirnimann daniel.stirnimann at switch.ch
Mon Mar 11 16:55:18 UTC 2013


On 11.03.13 15:24, Daniel Stirnimann wrote:

> Has anyone an idea what the source of this traffic pattern is? It's also
> interesting to note that quite a lot of 2nd-level queries result in
> NXDOMAIN responses.

Someone responded offlist to me. It's one of the messaging bots which is
causing this traffic which has a broken resolver.

McAfee Labs recently posted a nice summary of the messaging botnets:
http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/an-overview-of-messaging-botnets

Thanks,
Daniel



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