Re: question regarding nessus plug-in 10595 DNS AXFR

From: Ariel Martinez (ariel@muiscas.udea.edu.co)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 20:06:48 EST


On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, cissper wrote:

[...]

> In one of my scans, nessus reported a vulnerability allowing DNS zone
> transfers (see below). I have tried to verify this vulnerability
> manually with nslookup and other tools. Apparently a manual DNS zone
> transfer did not work! So I am just wondering if anybody knows what this
> plug-in is exactly doing. I am not yet familiar with the scripting
> language used.

I guess plugin tried an AXFR for a reverse zone not for a forward zone.
You can try dig(1) or host(1) from bind-utils to get the whole reverse
zone for 192.168.1.*:

$ dig @dns-server 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa axfr # You can append +notcp to
force udp query.
 
$ host -l 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa dns-server

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Ariel Martinez.
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