15 Jan
2002
15 Jan
'02
4:22 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Tim Devries wrote:
Ok, well this is good to know. Although it still doesn't explain why my firewall is reporting DNS UDP/TCP probes from windowupdate.com on a regular basis.
A couple of possibilities - DNS cache poisoning sending spoofed answers to your DNS server (are you running a current version of BIND or an alternative?) - DDOS attack on windowsupdate.com using spoofed source packets (DNS and HTTP packets can tunnel through most firewall configurations)