DNS

Domain Name System (DNS)

DNS is the system used to resolve store information about domain names including IP addresses, mail servers, and other information.

History

DNS was invented in 1982-1983 by Paul Mockapteris and Jon Postel.

Protocol dependencies

Example traffic

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Wireshark

The DNS dissector is fully functional. Also add info of additional Wireshark features where appropriate, like special statistics of this protocol.

Preference Settings

The DNS dissector has one preference: "Reassemble DNS messages spanning multiple TCP segments". As you might have guessed, this takes a DNS request or reply that has been split across multiple TCP segments and reassembles it back into one message. TCP_Reassembly has to be enabled for this feature to work.

Example capture file

The SampleCaptures has many DNS capture files.

Display Filter

A complete list of DNS display filter fields can be found in the display filter reference

Show only the DNS based traffic:

 dns

Capture Filter

You cannot directly filter DNS protocols while capturing if they are going to or from arbitrary ports. However, DNS traffic normally goes to or from port 53, and traffic to and from that port is normally DNS traffic, so you can filter on that port number.

Capture only traffic to and from port 53:

 port 53

On many systems, you can say "port domain" rather than "port 53".

DNS servers that allow recursive queries from external networks can be used to perform denial of service (DDoS) attacks. You can look for external recursive queries with a filter such as

  udp port 53 and (udp[10] & 1 == 1) and src net not <net1> and src net not <net2>

where <net1> and <net2> are network specifiers, such as 10.0.0.0/8.

External links

Discussion

Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/DNS on 2020-08-11 23:13:34 UTC