[tor-relays] EventDNS error

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 26 Jan 2016, at 01:12, TorOp AnonymizedDotIo1 <torrelay at anonymized.io> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Over the weekend I started having those kind of error popping on my log at a very high rate (a few per seconds):
> 
> Jan 25 09:00:00.000 [warn] eventdns: Address mismatch on received DNS packet.  Apparent source was xxx.237.192.xxx:61083
> 
> Apparent source is not my IP and is different at every error message. I restarted my relay and I have stopped happening. I am running my own local unbound DNS server.
> 
> Is it some kind of attack or simply an error that happened over the weekend? I have never seen it before.

This error is logged when Tor sends a DNS query to an address, but gets a reply back from a different address.

This could be an attack, or a misconfigured DNS server, or simply a multihomed DNS server.

Tim

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