DNSstuff reports open DNS

[Lloyd Thomas]

I tried DIG from a different server. The results are slightly different as
your first query said 'WARNING: recursion requested but not available

' at the end of the query and status was 'NOERROR'.

 

From: Remco Rijnders [mailto:remco at webconquest.com] 
Sent: 21 June 2008 16:53
To: Lloyd Thomas
Subject: Re: DNSstuff reports open DNS 

 

 

Op 21 jun 2008, om 17:38 heeft Lloyd Thomas het volgende geschreven:

> Just tried DIG myself using maradns and got the following response.
> ------------------------------------------
> root at dnsserver:/# dig TXT webconquest.com @85.234.142.68
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> TXT webconquest.com @85.234.142.68
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 52964
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 0, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; Query time: 75 msec
> ;; SERVER: 85.234.142.68#53(85.234.142.68)
> ;; WHEN: Sat Jun 21 16:31:03 2008
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 12
> -------------------------------------
>
> So it looks as though it will not return results, but it does 
> advertise as a
> open DNS and by what DNSstuff has recommended this is not 
> recommended. I
> will leave it running for a little if you want to have another look.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Lloyd

Not copying the list this time as I don't want to annoy too many 
people while we try to figure this out...

This server you're running dig from, it is not the nameserver itself 
is it?

I still get the same result using dig here as I did before:

Macintosh:~ remmy$ dig TXT webconquest.com @85.234.142.68

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> TXT webconquest.com @85.234.142.68
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 62330
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 0, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; Query time: 25 msec
;; SERVER: 85.234.142.68#53(85.234.142.68)
;; WHEN: Sat Jun 21 17:52:58 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 12


Cheers,

Remco