Weird iPhone DNS requests
Dec 7, 2021, 9:53 am
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Weird iPhone DNS requests
Not really travel related but I know there are a bunch of IT security types floating around here...I happened to take a look at my PiHole DNS logs and Mr. Gfunk's iPhone is making a slew of weird DNS lookups. Every 50-70 seconds it looks up two new domains. Each time the domains are gibberish, like nwj34dkio3p13439.33nlowaos0-dhje33ks.com. The PiHole is returning NXDOMAIN for all of them.
Anyone know what's up?
Anyone know what's up?
Dec 7, 2021, 10:08 am
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Dec 7, 2021, 10:12 am
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Dec 7, 2021, 10:29 am
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Correct. Whatever app it is, it's still interested in seeing how invalid domains are handled.
Dec 7, 2021, 8:30 pm
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Not really travel related but I know there are a bunch of IT security types floating around here...I happened to take a look at my PiHole DNS logs and Mr. Gfunk's iPhone is making a slew of weird DNS lookups. Every 50-70 seconds it looks up two new domains. Each time the domains are gibberish, like nwj34dkio3p13439.33nlowaos0-dhje33ks.com. The PiHole is returning NXDOMAIN for all of them.
Anyone know what's up?
Anyone know what's up?
If this doesn't settle it, then you could potentially have other issues which would likely not be pleasant.