DNS Resolvers and blocking external queries?

Berkey

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I recently went through the testing of the Gibson Research Corp, which I seemed to pass all of the tests except the "DNS Spoofability" test. It listed a few options to decrease the likely hood of certain threats by ignoring External queries. I'm not too sure what or how to make some of these changes, but I have provided screen shots of the data below, and thought I would see if there was any information on how to "fix" the errors.

Pic one shows the query source port analysis, #2 is the DNS Nameserver Access Details. (I passed the common port test, but in this pic it says I responded to an Icmp echo response, so not sure there, I thought that would have popped up in the port test)

Anyway this looks a little deeper than I'm used to and was looking for some info about the results and how to go about solving them.

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My buddy has just told me about their DNS benchmark system, which I will read and research to see what and how this may help. My apologies for asking about something that may have been right under my nose, but still I love the knowledge and advice on these boards so I'll take any advice.
 

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Are you running your own DNS server? No? Then don't concern yourself at this time.
If you are that concern either use OpenDNS or Google DNS.
 

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The only change you can make is to use another DNS server. I use OpenDNS.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

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Jim :cool:
 

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