Quarantined Server

yeah the subject is a little clickbait-ey…

I have a POS (Point of Sale / Piece of $#!+) server. It was made by our franchisor on SCO Unix. I use a service that receives a daily file via ftp and then represents that data as reports on a LAMP style Web 2.0ish SaaS solution.

I want to see the raw data so I plugged the Server into a Tik with a simple “SOHO router” style config but mirrored the port back to my laptop for wireshark

in wireshark I see the Server make a bunch of DNS queries to:
someserver.franchisor.com
1.us.pool.ntp.org
ftp1.SaaSService.com
1.us.pool.ntp.org.franchisor.com
ftp1.SaaSService.com.franchisor.com
2.us.pool.ntp.org
2.us.pool.ntp.org.franchisor.com
0.north-amercia.pool.ntp.org
0.north-amercia.pool.ntp.org.franchisor.com
etc.
etc.
etc.

in the servers software I can setup the typical stuff, ip, net mask, broadcast, dns 1 and 2, router.

I want to trick the Server into thinking it is receiving proper DNS queries without actually giving it net access.

Ideally I want to setup a FTP server that will accept the file this unix box is trying to FTP to the SaaS provider.

Any ideas?

Hi.

I want to trick the Server into thinking it is receiving proper DNS queries without actually giving it net access.

Redirecting relevant ports to your Linux server ? Or simply put your server IP into dns1, dns2, gateway… Then you can “fake” any response…

Best wishes: Xen