I ran the IP's through ARIN and RIPE, some are american based, and some are
in London England.
It could be somebody trying to find security holes, find a spammer machine,
or to relay through.
Keep your dns as read only.
"Gianni Bragante" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Sometimes I find my iptables based firewall discards a large number of DNS
> packet directed to the IP address of our mail server. This occurs several
> times per day.
> Sources are different IP addresses, each having at the same time the same
> idea to query a non existent DNS. Anybody could explain that?
> Does this happens to anybody else? Is this an attempted exploit of
> something? Of what?
>
> Please anybody helps me shed some light
>
> Thanks
> Gianni Bragante
>
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