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Date:      Sun, 17 May 1998 23:02:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
To:        sysadmin@mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)
Cc:        Secure-NT@wwa.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Somewhat off-topic: Port 54 DNS Queries???
Message-ID:  <199805180302.XAA06540@lucy.bedford.net>
In-Reply-To: <01BD81D3.5A6198B0@w3svcs.mfn.org> from "J.A. Terranson" at "May 17, 98 08:35:36 pm"

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J.A. Terranson wrote:
> We have recently been rejecting a *ton* of udp packets from port 54
> that purport to be DNS queries.  Does anyone know what's going on
> here?

My guess is that some wanker is trying to crack you or run a DoS against
your named, and got the port number off-by-one.

Dave
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