Understanding how DNS queries work at a deeper level - networking

It's currently 04:40 AM and I am stuck on something I simply do not understand. I am trying to look up a domain's nameservers directly by using the DNS protocol. If I send a host -t ns google.com 1.1.1.1 and monitor it with Wireshark, I can see the full query of the DNS query. However, I cannot figure out, why some ASCII characters are used one time, but not another time. Here is an example:
0000 70 4d 7b 94 dd e0 00 d8 61 a9 c5 ec 08 00 45 00 pM{.....a.....E.
0010 00 38 d6 ff 00 00 80 11 9f 50 c0 a8 01 bb 01 01 .8.......P......
0020 01 01 e8 40 00 35 00 24 a0 19 9e f7 01 00 00 01 ...#.5.$........
0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 67 6f 6f 67 6c 65 03 63 6f .......google.co
0040 6d 00 00 02 00 01 m.....
In this DNS query, I am looking up the nameservers for google.com. The actual query starts at 06 07.
06 in ASCII is ACK/Acknowledgment.
Now, if we take a look at gmail.com instead:
0000 70 4d 7b 94 dd e0 00 d8 61 a9 c5 ec 08 00 45 00 pM{.....a.....E.
0010 00 37 d7 00 00 00 80 11 9f 50 c0 a8 01 bb 01 01 .7.......P......
0020 01 01 e8 58 00 35 00 23 8f cc 6f e2 01 00 00 01 ...X.5.#..o.....
0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 67 6d 61 69 6c 03 63 6f 6d .......gmail.com
0040 00 00 02 00 01 .....
the query starts at 05 67 instead.
05 is ENQ/Enquiry.
Why are they different? If I try to send 06 instead of 05 the DNS server gives me no response but Wireshark tells me:
Unknown extended label
I've seen 05, 06, and 09 so far. 09 is my biggest "wat" of all time, because it's a HT/Horizontal Tab.
Anyone with a lot of DNS knowledge who can help me here? I'm not looking for "just use dig/nslookup/host command". I'm currently trying to research a bit on the DNS protocol, and this is a thing I do not understand.
Good read where I got a lot of help: http://dev.lab427.net/dns-query-wth-netcat.html

For a binary protocols like this, you can't assume each byte corresponds to the matching ASCII character.
Take a look at section 4.1.2 of the DNS RFC (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt).
The domain name in a DNS request is broken up into "labels". For each label, the first byte is the length of the label, then the bytes for the string are written.
For your Google.com example, the labels are "google" and "com". The 06 is the number of bytes in the first label. This is followed by the bytes for "google". Then the 03 is the number of bytes in the "com" label. After the "com" bytes, the 00 byte is the NULL label to mark the end.

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Disable client-initiated secure renegotiation in nginx

I use Nginx 1.19.6 and OpenSSL 1.1.1i.
But I checked my server support client-initiated secure renegotiation... (https://www.immuniweb.com/ssl/?id=Ek4FSF6C)
I don't know why my server supports client-initiated secure renegotiation.
Check Code:
openssl s_client -connect gjan.info:443 -msg -tls1_2
Result:
---
R
RENEGOTIATING
>>> ??? [length 0005]
16 03 03 00 f6
>>> TLS 1.2, Handshake [length 00de], ClientHello
01 00 00 da 03 03 cb bf ab b8 6f a1 31 14 2d fb
ad 63 aa d2 15 c6 5d fc 8c 19 fc db 4c 7f 5b d8
f1 f1 fd f3 29 fa 00 00 36 c0 2c c0 30 00 9f cc
a9 cc a8 cc aa c0 2b c0 2f 00 9e c0 24 c0 28 00
6b c0 23 c0 27 00 67 c0 0a c0 14 00 39 c0 09 c0
13 00 33 00 9d 00 9c 00 3d 00 3c 00 35 00 2f 01
00 00 7b ff 01 00 0d 0c 1b a5 84 2c 92 28 da 6e
0c 84 5f c4 00 00 00 0e 00 0c 00 00 09 67 6a 61
6e 2e 69 6e 66 6f 00 0b 00 04 03 00 01 02 00 0a
00 0c 00 0a 00 1d 00 17 00 1e 00 19 00 18 00 23
00 00 00 16 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 0d 00 30 00 2e
04 03 05 03 06 03 08 07 08 08 08 09 08 0a 08 0b
08 04 08 05 08 06 04 01 05 01 06 01 03 03 02 03
03 01 02 01 03 02 02 02 04 02 05 02 06 02
<<< ??? [length 0005]
15 03 03 00 1a
<<< TLS 1.2, Alert [length 0002], warning no_renegotiation
01 64
>>> ??? [length 0005]
15 03 03 00 1a
>>> TLS 1.2, Alert [length 0002], fatal handshake_failure
02 28
547636304368:error:14094153:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:no renegotiation:../ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1560:
Is just ImmuniWeb error or really my web server supported? If supported how can I disable?
It's just immuniweb. Qualys/ssllabs correctly shows
Secure Renegotiation Supported
Secure Client-Initiated Renegotiation No
Insecure Client-Initiated Renegotiation No
The first means the RFC5746 negotiation during handshake works; the second and third mean actual renegotiation initiated by the client fails.
PS: this isn't really a programming question or problem, but as long as others haven't voted to close I won't bother.
It might not be possible to use a setting in nginx to solve this security issue. However, you might refer nginx developers to this answer so they can make proper changes in their codebase. This is NOT just immuniweb as the other answer indicates.
The SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION option were added in OpenSSL 1.1.1. To make immuniweb give you the same score as we have (A+) you need to set SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION in order to disable all renegotiation in TLSv1.2 and earlier. This needs to be set where the SSL_CTX is created. You might also need to make additional changes in order to get the wanted scoring.
SSL_CTX *ssl_ctx = SSL_CTX_new(TLS_method());
...
SSL_CTX_set_options(ssl_ctx, SSL_OP_NO_RENEGOTIATION);
Source: SSL_CTX_set_options man 1.1.1

Float to hex conversion - reverse engineering

I'm trying to do some reverse engineering on my heating system. Monitoring the CAN BUS results in receiving hexademical strings, for example:
00 D0 68 D6 86 83 61 8F
61 C0 02 5C 12 B5 02 5C
12 78 04 39 04 03 05 02
05 C4 04 5C 12 5C 12 5C
12 5C 12 D0 68 00 00 00
00 18 08 37 D2 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 15 75 F2
F0 01 00 01 00 00 00 1F
I know that for example the temperature value of 22.5°C should be somewhere in there.
So far I have tried to look for the following conversions:
Possibility 1: ascii to hex
22.5 = 32 32 2E 35
Possibility 2: float to hex conversion
22.5 = 0x 41 b4 00 00
However none of these resulted in a match.
What would be other possibilities to converted a float to a hex string?
Thx
note: the given string is just a small part of my can sniffer so don't look for 22.5 in my given string here. I'm just looking for other possible conversions.

What is this bittorrent network flow? [closed]

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I've recorded some network traffic in my home that only appear up while running BitTorrent or uTorrent.
I've been reading the bittorrent protocol descriptions, but I am stuck trying to figure out a particular network flow.
Can someone help me identify what the following bittorrent network traffic is exactly?
It lasts quite a long time, even after stopping downloads.
All packets are in one direction - from my local machine running Bittorrent to a remote machine.
Here is data payload of one packet (copied from Wireshark):
00000000 60 00 00 00 00 00 3b 15 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 `.....;. ....8j.
00000010 04 b9 18 bf 9c 90 d8 81 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 ........ ....8j.
00000020 20 5a 01 45 bd 13 b1 65 01 04 44 4a e7 d5 04 04 Z.E...e ..DJ....
00000030 01 00 00 00 05 02 ea cf ........
All the packets in the network flow are similar, here are two more:
00000038 60 00 00 00 00 00 3b 15 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 `.....;. ....8j.
00000048 04 b9 18 bf 9c 90 d8 81 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 ........ ....8j.
00000058 20 5a 01 45 bd 13 b1 65 01 04 08 8e 35 9f 04 04 Z.E...e ....5...
00000068 01 00 00 00 05 02 ea cf ........
00000070 60 00 00 00 00 00 3b 15 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 `.....;. ....8j.
00000080 04 b9 18 bf 9c 90 d8 81 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 ........ ....8j.
00000090 20 5a 01 45 bd 13 b1 65 01 04 12 3e ba 6c 04 04 Z.E...e ...>.l..
000000A0 01 00 00 00 05 02 ea cf ........
These bittorrent packets are typically several seconds apart, and this flow seems to go on indefinitely. Which one of the bittorrent protocols describes this network flow?
I just sent a response to you on our mailing list, but I'm gonna post here too in case anyone else stumbles across it and finds it useful.
They're Teredo packets (with no payload). Wireshark can decode these
but it doesn't do so without coercion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_packet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling
One of your packets dissected:
IP Version: 6
Traffic Class: 0 0
Flow Label: 0 00 00
Payload Length: 00 00
Next Header: 3b (indicates that there is no payload present)
Hop Limit: 15
Source: 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 04 b9 18 bf 9c 90 d8 81
Destination: 20 01 00 00 9d 38 6a b8 20 5a 01 45 bd 13 b1 65
The source and destination also encode the source and destination
public ipv4 addresses and ports.
The hop-by-hop options header (in type-length-value format) follows in
this case. The possible types can be found here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-parameters/ipv6-parameters.xml
So we have this:
01 04: c3 ae 60 38 ("PadN", random bytes)
04 04: 01 00 00 00 ("Tunnel Encapsulation Limit")
05 02: ea cf ("Router Alert")
No clue what the value of the router alert field is here. I would
expect it to be listed here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-routeralert-values/ipv6-routeralert-values.xml
But it looks like either that's out of date or the Teredo
implementation you're using is doing something non-standard (or
there's something I've missed).
Anyways, these are clearly keep-alive packets. We're not directly
triggering them in the client as far as I know. I believe they're sent
by your Teredo driver to keep your tunnels open.

IPv4 header frame

I need to sort out something about the IPv4 header. For example the following frame with an Ethernet-II frame with an IPv4 packet starting at the fifteenth byte.
0000: 08 00 20 7c 94 1c 00 00 - 39 51 90 37 08 00 45 00
0010: 00 3e 36 00 00 00 80 11 - da 4f 82 eb 12 7f 82 eb
0020: 12 0a 04 01 00 35 00 2a - ee 6a 00 01 01 00 00 01
0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 67 - 65 6d 69 6e 69 03 6c 64
0040: 63 02 6c 75 02 73 65 00 - 00 01 00 01
I need to sort somethings out:
What does the 0000 & 0010 & 0020 & 0030 on the left stands for?
I just cant sort it out is 1 pair for example the first one 08 two bits or?
And if the IPv4 starts at fifteenth byte(1 byte = 8 bits) where does it start then, have problems to understand this because i dont get number 2.
Thank you for your time.
”45” in your first line of hexdump is the 1st byte of the ip header (15th byte of the ethernet frame). Each line is 16 bytes.
Also, in the beginning of each line has an offset like e.g. ”0010: ” (in hex) means the starting offset from the start of the whole dump.
Your first line would be, (total 16 bytes),
dmac(6)+smac(6)+etype(2)+ first2byte_of_ip(2)
and your first byte of ip is hex ”45”, you can lookup the detail ip header field in wikipedia.
It would be nice if you can read wireshark user's guide on your own. Anyway, to answer your question,
1) What does the 0000 & 0010 & 0020 & 0030 on the left stands for?
It stands for hexdump offset. You can refer to this page.
2) I just cant sort it out is 1 pair for example the first one 08 two bits or?
It is (part of ) destination MAC address. Entire MAC address should be 08 00 20 7c 94 1c.
3) since Q2 is now answered, this should not be problem for you.

Writing a Driver for an Extech HD300 Anemometer

I started a thread in the NI support forums about my project, but my current problem is more broad than just driver writing in labview. I have an anemometer that uses a USB UART bridge
to interface with the computer. I asked Extech for any kind of documentation for and received only the communication protocol below.
Serial Communication Protocol
I encountered several problems working with this, so I took the software included with the anemometer and used portmon to sniff the commands going to and from, and here's where it gets worse. To simplify matters as best as I could, I only took ambient temperature readings. The following was what portmon captured when I used the manufacture's software to connect to the instument:
(This is the 'upload protocol' on the above protocol documentation)
AA 61 64 6A 67 08 40 00 40 00 01 00 00 C6 41 00 00 00 00 00 3C 1C C6 9A 19 99 42 00 3C 1C C6 00 00
AA 61 64 6A 67 08 40 10 40 00 01 7D 0C C6 41 00 00 00 00 00 3C 1C C6 39 1F 99 42 00 3C 1C C6 00 00
AA 61 64 6A 67 08 40 10 40 00 01 00 00 C6 41 00 00 00 00 00 3C 1C C6 9A 19 99 42 00 3C 1C C6 00 00
AA 61 64 6A 67 08 40 10 40 00 01 83 F3 C5 41 00 00 00 00 00 3C 1C C6 FB 13 99 42 00 3C 1C C6 00 00
This is slightly truncated, but the important parts should be there. The ambient temperature read about 76.5F at the time. So according to the documentation, this should be in the 10-13th bits, so I believe:
0000c641
7d0cc641
0000c641
83f3c541
To be the recorded ambient temperatures, but I have no idea how to read this. I see no reason why a conversion from Kelvin or Celsius would be necessary as there seems to be a bit for that in F1. Also of note is the fact that I get values completely different than anything documented for several fields, so either I'm reading something wrong or the documentation is just wrong. I haven't been able to get any more answers from the manufacturer about the protocol, so I have no idea why my data only half resembles what is expected.
41C60000 converts to 24.75 as an IEEE754 standard 32-bit single precision float. This looks like a Celsius value which would map to 76.55 F.
For the rest of the data you would have :
41C60000 = 24.7500000000000000000
41C60C7D = 24.7560977935791015625
41C5F383 = 24.7439022064208984375
I think that sorts out the endianness and formatting for you.

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