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[mike <mike AT pikeaero.com>]

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Okay....what the heck is going on here? Here'a a small snippet from my
"netstat -n":

   0 66.206.229.101:57691    192.41.162.30:53        TIME_WAIT
tcp        1      1 66.206.229.101:41576    192.31.80.30:53
CLOSING
tcp        0      0 66.206.229.101:47285    192.55.83.30:53
TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 66.206.229.101:58621    192.5.6.30:53
ESTABLISHED
tcp        1      1 66.206.229.101:58078    192.43.172.30:53
CLOSING
tcp        0     49 66.206.229.101:43677    192.52.178.30:53
LAST_ACK
tcp        0      0 66.206.229.101:47599    192.31.80.30:53
TIME_WAIT

There are hundreds of these 192...bla addresses. They all belong to
VeriSign!!

So what gives here?! Are we under attack by Verisign or what? Is this
just me?

- --Mike

On 11-06-19 08:11 PM, mike wrote:
> Any other ops noticing a sharp increase in DNS traffic since late
> yesterday or so?
> 
> I don't keep any logs, so I can't give a detailed report, but 'named'
> CPU usage has climbed significantly along with UDP traffic on port 53.
> 
> I'm just trying to estimate if this is a trend or if this is a once-time
> event of some sort. If it's a trend then I probably need to start
> budgeting for some hardware upgrades at some point, my DNS is running
> only on a single core, 32-bit 2GHz CPU @ 1.5 GB RAM. I've got plenty of
> RAM, but 'named' since perhaps around midnight last night has the CPU
> pegged at 45-55%.
> 
> --Mike
> 
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