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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