[dns-operations] Querying version.bind illegal?

[Vitalie Cherpec]

I was worried that my ISP will not bother to read details, it's much
easier to kick-off a client paying for a  cheap VPS. :) I've responded
to both parties offering all the details, so far I didn't received any
response.

@Phil I'm not scanning servers in advance, the servers are being queried
when an user is requesting a report for a zone through the web interface,
reports are cached on Amazon S3  (>1 month).

@Stephane Thanks for sharing the link with the IP list!

@John Great checklist!

I was looking for similar experiences and I'm glad I found a few here.

Thank you,
Vitalie

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Vitalie Cherpec <vitalie at penguin.ro> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've developed a DNS checking tool (http://www.dnsinspect.com/).
> After 5 years of running it without any issues, I've received today a
> compliant through my ISP from a big company in a foreign country.
>
> They pretend that my VPS is attacking their infrastructure while
> querying their DNS server's version and this request can be regarded
> as cyber-terror attack (my tool tries only to warn users exposing the
> DNS software version).
>
> I've blacklisted their DNS servers from being queried in the future,
> but I would like to know if querying version.bind is illegal (in
> some countries)?
>
> Regards,
> Vitalie
>
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