Yeah... It looks like the hex feature was just added and they still have
some bugs to work out. I think it has a problem because those 0x00's
are treated as NULLs, which I think are prematurely terminating the
payload string it is using.
Jason
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 19:03, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> I'm having a bear of a time trying to do something that seems simple.
> There's a program called 'packit' that allows you to craft custom
> TCP/UDP packets. You can specify a payload and most of the IP header
> pieces. What I'm trying to do (at first) is mimic a standard A query
> from packit. Next, I want to create packets bigger than 512 bytes.
>
> Here's the command I'm using:
>
> packit -t UDP -T 64 -s 10.1.1.100 -S 32767 \
> -d 10.1.1.1 -V 4 --D 53 -p \
> '0x DE AD 01 00 00 01 00 00 \
> 00 00 00 00 03 41 42 43 \
> 03 31 32 33 00 00 01 00 \
> 01'
>
> Above hex corresponds to:
> 0x DEAD - Transaction ID
> 01 00 - Query type (Query or response), various DNS flags
> 00 01 - number of queries
> 00 00
> 00 00
> 00 00 - Number of answers, similar stuff
> 03 41 42 43 03 31 32 333 00 - the query (03 represents length)
> 00 01 00 01 - Type of response desired
>
> The payload above corresponds (or should correspond) with a standard
> query for host ABC.123. I.e., I request a single recursive query,
> setting all other DNS flags to 0. However, it looks like bytes are being
> skipped over. On the bottom you can see that it thinks I'm making 833
> queries when I'm asking for just one.
>
> Here's an Ethereal log of the packet:
>
> Domain Name System (query)
> Transaction ID: 0xdead
> Flags: 0x0101 (Standard query)
> 0... .... .... .... = Response: Message is a query
> .000 0... .... .... = Opcode: Standard query (0)
> .... ..0. .... .... = Truncated: Message is not truncated
> .... ...1 .... .... = Recursion desired: Do query recursively
> .... .... .0.. .... = Z: reserved (0)
> .... .... ...0 .... = Non-authenticated data OK:
> Non-authenticated data is unacceptable
> Questions: 833
> Answer RRs: 16963
> Authority RRs: 817
> Additional RRs: 12851
> Queries
> [Malformed Packet: DNS]
>
> I've gone so far as to capture a valid query (using nslookup) and just
> copied over the dump but it still seems to skip the zeros and push the
> actual query into the header area.
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Anyone know of another tool that will
> allow this to be done?
>
> Thanks,
> Kwan
>
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