Port 53 (DNS)

HoneyLabs honeypots recorded 1,188 probes against destination port 53 (DNS) from 242 distinct source IP addresses in the last 7 days.

First observed 2026-11-08 08:30, most recently 2026-11-15 08:12 (UTC).

What the sensors show

The sources sat in 43 networks across 21 countries. No single address sent more than 11% of them. The largest source network was AS202425 (IP Volume inc), with 26% of the probes from 5 addresses. 13 of the 25 busiest addresses are recognised research scanners.

Most active source addresses

Source IPProbesNetworkCountry
89.248.171.24132IP Volume incNL
93.174.93.1293IP Volume incNL
80.82.77.20256IP Volume incNL
71.6.155.7029CariNet, Inc.US
89.248.172.3324IP Volume incNL
109.105.210.6216Zenlayer IncPT
71.6.199.2315CariNet, Inc.US
35.206.150.9514Google LLCBE

Networks it comes from

ASNOrganisationProbesSource IPs
AS202425IP Volume inc3075
AS15169Google LLC21640
AS135377UCLOUD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED11416
AS398324Censys, Inc.929
AS10439CariNet, Inc.569
AS212835Shesternin Vladimir Anatolievich485

Where it comes from

CountryProbes
The Netherlands312
United States305
Belgium221
Hong Kong67
Portugal66
Russia49

Client strings seen on this port

User agentProbes
Python/3.10 aiohttp/3.8.4305
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CensysInspect/1.1; +https://about.censys.io/)53
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.3653
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.032
Mozilla/5.0 zgrab/0.x29

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